Benefits of morphological defence demonstrated by direct manipulation in larval dragonflies

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 619-626

  Mikolajewski, Dirk Johannes ^a   Rolff, Jens ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Benefits; Inducible defence; Morphological defence; Plasticity; Predator

Indexed keywords

ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES);

EID: 2642542666     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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