Environmental stress and fluctuating asymmetry in the grasshopper Chorthippus parallelus (Acrididae: Gomphocerinae)

Zoology

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 117-125

  Jentzsch, Anja ^a,b   Köhler, Günther ^a   Schumacher, Jens ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b Institut für Ökologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agrochemical pollution; Extreme climatic conditions; Fertilisation; Marginal population; Trait functionality and FA

Indexed keywords

ACRIDIDAE; CHORTHIPPUS PARALLELUS; GOMPHOCERINAE;

EID: 0042666829     PISSN: 09442006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/0944-2006-00106     Document Type: Article

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