European birds and aposematic Heteroptera: Review of comparative experiments

Bulletin of Insectology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 163-165

  Exnerová, Alice ^a   Svádová, Kateřina ^a,b   Fouá, Petra ^a   Fučíková, Eva ^a,c   Ježová, Dana ^a   Niederlová, Aneta ^a   Kopečková, Michala ^a   Štys, Pavel ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HRADEC KRALOVE   (Czech Republic)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Antipredatory defences; Heteroptera pentatomomorpha; Passeriformes; Warning signals

Indexed keywords

AVES; HETEROPTERA; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; PENTATOMOMORPHA;

EID: 77649210294     PISSN: 17218861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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