Orientation cues for high-flying nocturnal insect migrants: Do turbulence-induced temperature and velocity fluctuations indicate the mean wind flow?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Reynolds, Andy M ^a   Reynolds, Don R ^a,b   Smith, Alan D ^a   Chapman, Jason W ^a  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALTITUDE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BOUNDARY LAYER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLYING; INSECT; NOCTURNAL SPECIES; ORIENTING RESPONSE; POPULATION MIGRATION; SIMULATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; UNITED KINGDOM; VELOCITY; WIND; ANIMAL; ATMOSPHERE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

HEXAPODA;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; ATMOSPHERE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; GREAT BRITAIN; INSECTS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOVEMENT; SPACE PERCEPTION; TEMPERATURE; WIND;

EID: 78650801238     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015758     Document Type: Article

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