The effect of wing colour on male behavioural strategies in the speckled wood butterfly

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 39-51

  Van Dyck, Hans ^a   Matthysen, Erik ^a   Dhondt, Andre A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PATCH USE; SHADE; SPECKLED WOOD; THERMOREGULATION; WING COLOUR;

LEPIDOPTERA; PARARGE AEGERIA; SATYRIDAE;

EID: 0030937290     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0276     Document Type: Article

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