Effects of temperature on growth, development and diapause in the yellow dung fly - Against all the rules?

Oecologia

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 318-324

  Blanckenhorn, W U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Body size; Diapause; Juvenile development; Scathophaga stercoraria; Temperature

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT TIME; DIAPAUSE; TEMPERATURE; YELLOW DUNGFLY;

DIPTERA; MUSCIDAE; SCATHOPHAGA STERCORARIA;

EID: 0030745943     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050241     Document Type: Article

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