Multiple routes to reduced interspecific territorial fighting in Hetaerina damselflies

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 527-534

  Anderson, Christopher N ^a,b   Grether, Gregory F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

competitor recognition; heterospecific aggression; interspecific fighting; interspecific territoriality; species recognition

Indexed keywords

COLOR MORPH; DAMSELFLY; FIGHTING; HABITAT USE; RECOGNITION; SYMPATRY; TERRITORIALITY; WING MORPHOLOGY;

NORTH AMERICA;

HETAERINA; HETAERINA AMERICANA; HETAERINA OCCISA; HETAERINA TITIA; ZYGOPTERA;

EID: 79955420325     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arr013     Document Type: Article

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