Simple rules guide dragonfly migration

Biology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 325-329

  Wikelski, Martin ^a   Moskowitz, David ^c   Adelman, James S ^a   Cochran, Jim ^d   Wilcove, David S ^a,b   May, Michael L ^e  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EcolSciences Inc   (United States)

^d Rutgers University ^*  (United States)

^e RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision rules; Dispersal; Flight; Insect; Radiotracking

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; DRAGONFLY; MIGRATION; MIGRATORY POPULATION; MOTH; RADIOTELEMETRY; WIND DIRECTION; WIND VELOCITY;

ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRAGON FLY; FEMALE; INSECT; MALE; MIGRATION; MOTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELEMETRY;

ANAX JUNIUS; ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 33748635407     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0487     Document Type: Article

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