Seasonally adaptive migratory headings mediated by a sun compass in the painted lady butterfly, Vanessa cardui

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1119-1125

  Nesbit, R L ^a   Hill, J K ^b   Woiwod, I P ^a   Sivell, D ^a   Bensusan, K J ^c   Chapman, J W ^a  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c GIBRALTAR ORNITHOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY   (Gibraltar)

Author keywords

butterfly; flight simulator; migration; orientation; painted lady; Vanessa cardui

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BREEDING SITE; BUTTERFLY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLIGHT; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; MIGRATORY SPECIES; MOVEMENT; ORIENTATION BEHAVIOR; RETURN MIGRATION; SEASONALITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GIBRALTAR; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

HEXAPODA; PAPILIONOIDEA; VANESSA CARDUI;

EID: 70350077291     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.07.039     Document Type: Article

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