Threat-sensitive responses to predator attacks in a damselfly

Ethology

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 411-423

  Gyssels, Freya G M ^a   Stoks, Robby ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; DAMSELFLY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); ISCHNURA ELEGANS; ZYGOPTERA;

EID: 17644380315     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2005.01076.x     Document Type: Article

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