Sex- and landscape-related differences in flight ability under suboptimal temperatures in a woodland butterfly

Functional Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 436-441

  Merckx, T ^a,d   Karlsson, B ^b   Van Dyck, H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body temperature; Flight performance; Habitat fragmentation; Pararge aegeria; Sexual dimorphism

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; THERMOREGULATION;

PAPILIONOIDEA; PARARGE AEGERIA;

EID: 33745107533     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2006.01124.x     Document Type: Article

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