Thermal ecology of Interior Alaska dragonflies (Odonata: Anisoptera)

Functional Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 114-123

  Sformo, T ^a   Doak, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Minimum flight temperature; Thermoregulation; Thermoregulatory performance index

Indexed keywords

DRAGONFLY; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; THERMOREGULATION;

ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); ODONATA;

EID: 33645217841     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2006.01064.x     Document Type: Article

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