An experimental displacement and over 50 years of tag-recoveries show that monarch butterflies are not true navigators

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

Volumn 110, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 7348-7353

  Mouritsen, Henrik ^a   Derbyshire, Rachael ^b   Stalleicken, Julia ^a   Mouritsen, Ole Ø ^c   Frost, Barrie J ^d   Norris, D Ryan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Analytical expectation model; Clock and compass orientation; Longitudinal displacement; Mark recapture; Numerical model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREEDING; BUTTERFLY; DISPLACEMENT BEHAVIOR; FLIGHT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEXICO; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

ALBERTA; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ONTARIO; ORIENTATION; TIME FACTORS;

DANAUS PLEXIPPUS;

EID: 84876906924     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1221701110     Document Type: Article

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