Reducing the maladaptive attractiveness of solar panels to polarotactic insects

Conservation Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1644-1653

  Horváth, Gábor ^a   Blahó, Miklós ^a   Egri, Ádám ^a   Kriska, György ^a   Seres, István ^b   Robertson, Bruce ^c  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolutionary trap; Habitat selection; Maladaptation; Polarized light pollution

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BUILDING; CADDISFLY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT SELECTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MAYFLY; MORTALITY; OVIPOSITION; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; POLARIZATION; POPULATION DECLINE; SOLAR POWER; STONEFLY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EGG LAYING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; INSECT; LIGHT; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POWER SUPPLY; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; INSECTS; LIGHT; OVIPOSITION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

DIPTERA; DOLICHOPODIDAE; EPHEMEROPTERA; HEXAPODA; PLECOPTERA; TABANIDAE; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 78349252624     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01518.x     Document Type: Article

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