Predator Percolation, Insect Outbreaks, and Phase Polyphenism

Current Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 20-24

  Reynolds, Andy M ^a   Sword, Gregory A ^b   Simpson, Stephen J ^b   Reynolds, Don R ^a,c  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

EVO_ECOL

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION; GRASSHOPPER; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DEMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION; GRASSHOPPERS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DENSITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

HEXAPODA; ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 58149154518     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.10.070     Document Type: Article

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