Fog-basking behaviour and water collection efficiency in Namib Desert Darkling beetles

Frontiers in Zoology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Nørgaard, Thomas ^a   Dacke, Marie ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLEOPTERA; ONYMACRIS; STENOCARA GRACILIPES; TENEBRIONIDAE;

EID: 77954556920     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17429994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-9994-7-23     Document Type: Article

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