Hot-blooded singers: Endothermy facilitates crepuscular signaling in African platypleurine cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Platypleura spp.)

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 90, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 305-308

  Sanborn, Allen F ^a   Villet, Martin H ^b   Phillips, Polly K ^c  

^a BARRY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY TEMPERATURE; CALLING BEHAVIOR; ENDOTHERMY; SIGNALING; THERMOREGULATION;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FACILITATION; HEMIPTERA; INSECT; NONHUMAN; SINGING; SOLAR RADIATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMOREGULATION;

ABDOMEN; AFRICA; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; HEMIPTERA; TEMPERATURE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

SOUTH AFRICA;

ANIMALIA; CICADA; CICADIDAE; HEMIPTERA; INSECTA; PERCIDAE; PLATYPLEURA;

EID: 0038297956     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-003-0428-1     Document Type: Article

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