Optimal strategies for insects migrating in the flight boundary layer: Mechanisms and consequences

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 119-133

  Srygley, Robert B ^a,b   Dudley, Robert ^b,c  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; NYMPHALIDAE; PANTALA; PAPILIONOIDEA; PIERIDAE; URANIA;

EID: 47249157297     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icn011     Document Type: Review

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