Animal or plant: Which is the better fog water collector?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Nørgaard, Thomas ^a   Ebner, Martin ^b   Dacke, Marie ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RUNOFF; WATER;

ARTICLE; BEETLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FLOW RATE; FOG WATER COLLECTOR; LEAF STRUCTURE; LEAF SURFACE; MOUTH; NONHUMAN; ONYMACRIS UNGUICULARIS; ORGANISMS BY METABOLISM; PLANT METABOLISM; POACEAE; PREDATOR; SPECIES COMPARISON; STEADY STATE; STIPAGROSTRIS SABULICOLA; SURFACE PROPERTY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; TIME; WEATHER;

ANIMALIA; COLEOPTERA; ONYMACRIS; POACEAE; TENEBRIONIDAE;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; POACEAE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIME FACTORS; WATER; WEATHER;

EID: 84859244113     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034603     Document Type: Article

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