Red-wing blackbird reproductive behaviour and the palatability, flight performance, and morphology of temperate pierid butterflies (Colias, Pieris, and Pontia)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 41-55

  Srygley, Robert B ^a,b   Kingsolver, Joel G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allocation; Escape body shape; Lepidoptera; Pieridae; Predation; Temperate; Tropical

Indexed keywords

BIRD; FLIGHT PERFORMANCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOUR; PALATABILITY; PREY SPECIES; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOUR;

AGELAIUS PHOENICEUS; AVES; BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. CAPITATA; COLIAS; COLIAS EURYTHEME; COLIAS PHILODICE; LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA; PASSERIFORMES; PHILODICE; PIERIDAE; PIERIS RAPAE; PONTIA; PONTIA OCCIDENTALIS; TURDUS MERULA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031841560     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.1997.0200     Document Type: Article

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