Migration of the painted lady butterfly, Vanessa cardui, to north-eastern Spain is aided by African wind currents

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 888-898

  Stefanescu, Constantí ^a   Alarcón, Marta ^b   Àvila, Anna ^c  

^a Butterfly Monitoring Scheme   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Lepidoptera; Migratory behaviour; Nymphalidae; Population source areas; Synoptic scale wind systems

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; MIGRATION; SPRING (SEASON); WIND WAVE;

AFRICA; ALTITUDE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; FLYING; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEASON; SPAIN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WIND;

AFRICA; ALTITUDE; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; SPAIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WIND;

AFRICA; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; NYMPHALIDAE; VANESSA CARDUI;

EID: 34547908870     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2007.01262.x     Document Type: Article

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