Adult flight in a water strider exposed to habitat drydown in the larval stages

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 89, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 552-554

  Kishi, Manabu ^a   Harada, Tetsuo ^a   Spence, John R ^b  

^a KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESICCATION; EPHEMERAL POOL; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; GROWTH; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG LAYING; FLYING; GROWTH; GROWTH PERIOD; HABITAT STRUCTURE; INSECT; LAKE; LARVA; NONHUMAN; POND;

ANIMALIA; AQUARIUS; AQUARIUS PALUDUM; GERRIDAE; HETEROPTERA; INSECTA;

EID: 0036965129     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-002-0380-5     Document Type: Article

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