Predicting Insect Migration Density and Speed in the Daytime Convective Boundary Layer

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Bell, James R ^a   Aralimarad, Prabhuraj ^b   Lim, Ka Sing ^a   Chapman, Jason W ^a,c  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BOUNDARY LAYER; DIURNAL SPECIES; INSECT; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION MIGRATION; PREDICTION; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; WIND;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CLIMATE; INSECTS; LINEAR MODELS;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 84872857274     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054202     Document Type: Article

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