Solar Elevation Triggers Foraging Activity in a Thermophilic Ant

Ethology

Volumn 117, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1031-1039

  Amor, Fernando ^a   Ortega, Patrocinio ^a   Cerdá, Xim ^a   Boulay, Raphaël R ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; DIURNAL VARIATION; ECTOTHERMY; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GLOBAL WARMING; LABORATORY METHOD; MUTUALISM; SEASONAL VARIATION;

SPAIN;

ANIMALIA; CATAGLYPHIS; CATAGLYPHIS FLORICOLA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 80053921143     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2011.01955.x     Document Type: Article

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