Seasonal migration to high latitudes results in major reproductive benefits in an insect

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 37, 2012, Pages 14924-14929

  Chapman, Jason W ^a,b   Bell, James R ^a   Burgin, Laura E ^c   Reynolds, Donald R ^a,d   Pettersson, Lars B ^e   Hill, Jane K ^f   Bonsall, Michael B ^g   Thomas, Jeremy A ^g,h  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^e LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^h CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Source sink dynamics; Windborne migration

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOGRAPHA; AUTOGRAPHA GAMMA; AUTUMN; BREEDING; INSECT; LATITUDE; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; SUMMER; WINTER;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; GEOGRAPHY; GREAT BRITAIN; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTHS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RADAR; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS;

AUTOGRAPHA GAMMA; HEXAPODA; NOCTUIDAE;

EID: 84866277487     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1207255109     Document Type: Article

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