Isotopic Evidence That Dragonflies (Pantala flavescens) Migrating through the Maldives Come from the Northern Indian Subcontinent

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Hobson, Keith A ^a   Anderson, R Charles ^b   Soto, David X ^a,c   Wassenaar, Leonard I ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b Manta Marine Pvt Ltd   (Maldives)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITIN; DEUTERIUM; RAIN; STABLE ISOTOPE; SURFACE WATER;

AFRICA; ALGORITHM; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRAGONFLY; FORELIMB; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INDIA; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; MALDIVES; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; PANTALA FLAVESCENS; PREDICTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; WIND;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; HYDROGEN; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; ISOTOPES; ODONATA;

ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); PANTALA FLAVESCENS;

EID: 84871418031     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052594     Document Type: Article

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