Grasshopper populations across 2000 m of altitude: Is there life history adaptation?

Ecography

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 733-740

  Berner, Daniel ^a   Körner, Christian ^b   Blanckenhorn, Wolf U ^c  

^a AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALTITUDE; GRASSHOPPER; LIFE HISTORY; RANGE EXPANSION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND; WORLD;

ACRIDIDAE; ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 11144251586     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0906-7590.2005.04012.x     Document Type: Article

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