Recent insights from radar studies of insect flight

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 56, Issue , 2011, Pages 337-356

  Chapman, Jason W ^a   Drake, V Alistair ^b,c   Reynolds, Don R ^a,d  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

foraging; harmonic radar; insect monitoring radar; evy flights; migration; orientation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FLYING; INSECT; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; TELECOMMUNICATION;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; INSECTS; RADAR;

HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 78650918309     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ento-120709-144820     Document Type: Article

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