Territorial defence in speckled wood butterflies: Do the hottest males always win?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1341-1347

  Stutt, Alastair D ^a   Willmer, Pat ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIGHTING; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; SPECKLED WOOD; TERRITORIALITY;

HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; NYMPHALIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA; PARARGE AEGERIA; SATYRIDAE;

EID: 0032078769     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0728     Document Type: Article

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