Airspeed adjustment and lipid reserves in migratory Neotropical butterflies

Functional Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 264-270

  Dudley, R ^a,b   Srygley, R B ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d USDA ARS Northern Plains Agricultural Research Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Central America; Flight velocity; Insect flight; Nymphalidae; Optimal migration; Panama; Pieridae

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; BIOENERGETICS; BODY MASS; BUTTERFLY; CHLOROFORM; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; LIPID; MIGRATORY POPULATION; NEOTROPICAL REGION; OPTIMIZATION; ORIENTATION BEHAVIOR; VELOCITY PROFILE;

CENTRAL AMERICA; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

HEXAPODA; NYMPHALIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA; PIERIDAE;

EID: 40949164769     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2007.01364.x     Document Type: Article

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