Ecological traps for dragonflies in a cemetery: The attraction of Sympetrum species (Odonata: Libellulidae) by horizontally polarizing black gravestones

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1700-1709

  Horváth, Gábor ^a   Malik, Péter ^a   Kriska, György ^a   Wildermuth, Hansruedi ^b  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Black gravestones; Ecological trap; Odonata; Polarization vision; Water detection

Indexed keywords

ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); HEXAPODA; LIBELLULIDAE; ODONATA; SYMPETRUM; SYMPETRUM DANAE; SYMPETRUM FLAVEOLUM; SYMPETRUM SANGUINEUM; SYMPETRUM STRIOLATUM;

EID: 34547811360     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2007.01798.x     Document Type: Article

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