Differential Bird Predator Attack Rate on Seasonal Forms of the Map Butterfly (Araschnia levana L.): Does the Substrate Matter?

Ethology

Volumn 116, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1020-1026

  Joiris, Augustin ^a   Korati, Safia ^a   Van Dyck, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIRD; BUTTERFLY; COLOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENERATION TIME; LABORATORY METHOD; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SEASONAL VARIATION;

AGLAIS URTICAE; ARASCHNIA LEVANA; AVES; FRITILLARIA (ANGIOSPERM); NYMPHALIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA; PARUS MAJOR; URTICA;

EID: 78649461656     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2010.01819.x     Document Type: Article

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