Parallel evolution of thermophilia: Daily and seasonal foraging patterns of heat-adapted desert ants: Cataglyphis and Ocymyrmex species

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 271-281

  Wehner, Rüdiger ^a   Wehner, Sibylle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Annual cycles; Cataglyphis; Daily cycles; Desert ants; Foraging patterns; Ocymyrmex; Respite behaviour; Thermophilic behaviour

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; ANT; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DESERT; DIURNAL VARIATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; NICHE; PARALLEL EVOLUTION; SCAVENGER; SEASONALITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; THERMOPHILY;

NORTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA;

CATAGLYPHIS; FORMICIDAE; FORMICINAE; MYRMICINAE; OCYMYRMEX;

EID: 80051697168     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: 13653032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3032.2011.00795.x     Document Type: Article

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