Assessing the benefits of aggregation: Thermal biology and water relations of anomalous Emperor Moth caterpillars

Functional Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 417-427

  Klok, C J ^a   Chown, S L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Body size; Gregariousness; Thermoregulation; Upper lethal limits; Water balance

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER RELATIONS;

COLOPHOSPERMUM MOPANE; IMBRASIA BELINA; LEPIDOPTERA; SATURNIIDAE;

EID: 0032801881     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.1999.00324.x     Document Type: Article

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