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Insect Movement : Mechanisms and Consequences.
Insect movement is a subject that has seen many advances in the 1980s and 1990s. This book is based on the main papers presented at the Royal Entomological Society's 20th Symposium on this topic, held in September 1999.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Wallingford :
CAB International,
2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contributors; 1 Introduction and Overview; 2 The Biomechanics and Functional Diversity of Flight; 3 How Insect Wings Evolved; 4 Physiology and Endocrine Control of Flight; 5 Insect Behaviours Associated with Resource Finding; 6 Host Location by Parasitoids; 7 Flight Trajectories of Foraging Insects: Observations Using Harmonic Radar; 8 The Evolution of Migratory Syndromes in Insects; 9 Orientation Mechanisms and Migration Strategies Within the Flight Boundary Layer; 10 Characterizing Insect Migration Systems in Inland Australia with Novel and Traditional Methodologies.