Plasticity in forest tent caterpillar collective foraging schedules

Ethology

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 521-528

  Peters, M I ^a   Despland, E ^a,b  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATERPILLAR; DIGITAL IMAGE; ECTOTHERMY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LOCOMOTION; PLASTICITY; PREDATOR;

MALACOSOMA AMERICANUM; MALACOSOMA DISSTRIA;

EID: 33744474826     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2005.01197.x     Document Type: Article

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