Environmental and social influences on calling effort in the prairie mole cricket (Gryllotalpa major)

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 101-108

  Hill, Peggy S M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic signaling; Calling effort; Gryllotalpa major; Prairie mole cricket; Sexual advertisement

Indexed keywords

ADVERTISEMENT CALL; CALLING BEHAVIOUR; PRAIRIE MOLE-CRICKET;

(SOUTH-CENTRAL); USA;

GRYLLOTALPA MAJOR; GRYLLOTALPIDAE; ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 0031908359     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/9.1.101     Document Type: Article

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