Altitudinal variation for senescence in Melanoplus grasshoppers

Oecologia

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 357-364

  Tatar, Marc ^a,b   Gray, Dennis W ^a   Carey, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Altitudinal variation; Body size; Melanoplus sanguinipes devastator; Mortality; Senescence

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDINAL GRADIENT; GRASSHOPPER; SENESCENCE; SURVIVAL;

USA, CALIFORNIA, SIERRA NEVADA;

ACRIDIDAE; MELANOPLUS; ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 0030834310     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050246     Document Type: Article

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