Nocturnal migration of dragonflies over the Bohai Sea in northern China

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 511-520

  Feng, Hong Qiang ^a,b   Wu, Kong Ming ^a   Ni, Yun Xia ^b   Cheng, Deng Fa ^a   Guo, Yu Yuan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

Dragonfly; Flight behaviour; Light trapping; Nocturnal migration; Pantala flavescens Fabricius; Radar observations; Wind compensation

Indexed keywords

DRAGONFLY; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; FOG; MIGRATION; MOVEMENT; NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY; RADAR; TEMPERATURE INVERSION; WIND DIRECTION;

BOHAI SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN; YELLOW SEA;

ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LIBELLULIDAE; ODONATA; PANTALA FLAVESCENS;

EID: 33748624393     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2006.00813.x     Document Type: Article

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