Male competition and aggregative behaviour are mediated by acoustic cues within a temporally unstructured aggregation

Behaviour

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 71-90

  Guerra, Patrick A ^a,b   Mason, Andrew C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Chorus; Competitive signalling; Orthoptera; Phonotaxis; Tettigoniidae

Indexed keywords

ACARI; CONOCEPHALUS BREVIPENNIS; ORTHOPTERA; TETTIGONIIDAE;

EID: 24344437785     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568539053627730     Document Type: Article

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