Predator-prey interactions on the wing: Aerobatics and body size among dance flies and midges

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 911-915

  McLachlan, Athol ^a   Ladle, Richard ^b   Crompton, Benedict ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; FLIGHT; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY CAPTURE;

CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIRONOMUS PLUMOSUS; DIPTERA; EMPIDIDAE; EMPIS; EMPIS TESSELLATA;

EID: 0345392779     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2003.2277     Document Type: Article

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