Female mating failures in insects

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 211-226

  Rhainds, Marc ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Allee effect; Bagworms; Emergence time; Empiricism; Flightlessness; Gynogeny; Paradigms in ecological theory; Parthenogenesis; Population density; Protandry; Psychidae; Wallflower

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ALLEE EFFECT; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MATING BEHAVIOR; MATING SUCCESS; MIGRATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVIPOSITION; PARTHENOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PROTANDRY; SEX RATIO;

ERYSIMUM CHEIRI; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA; PSYCHIDAE;

EID: 77955233513     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2010.01032.x     Document Type: Review

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