The benefit of being a social butterfly: Communal roosting deters predation

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1739, 2012, Pages 2769-2776

  Finkbeiner, Susan D ^a   Briscoe, Adriana D ^a   Reed, Robert D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Collective aposematism; Communal roosting; Dilution effect; Heliconius; Predation

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIRD; BUTTERFLY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VINE;

EID: 84862143799     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.0203     Document Type: Article

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