Diel flight behaviour and dispersal patterns of aquatic coleoptera and heteroptera species with special emphasis on the importance of seasons

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 99, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 751-765

  Csabai, Zoltán ^a   Kálmán, Zoltán ^a   Szivák, Ildiko ^a,b   Boda, Pál ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^b MTA CENTRE FOR ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Hungary)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Air temperature dependency; Aquatic insect dispersal behaviour; Diel flight activity; Diurnal dispersal patterns; Pattern shift among seasons

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; BEETLE; DIEL VARIATION; DISPERSAL; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEETLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FLYING; HETEROPTERA; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; HETEROPTERA; SEASONS;

COLEOPTERA; HETEROPTERA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84866252373     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-012-0957-6     Document Type: Article

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