Is there an intraspecific role for density-dependent colour change in the desert locust?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 861-870

  Sword, Gregory A ^a   Simpson, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; LOCUST; POPULATION DENSITY;

ACRIDIDAE; ANIMALIA; ORTHOPTERA; SCHISTOCERCA GREGARIA;

EID: 0033864416     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1397     Document Type: Article

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