Benefits and Mechanisms of Group Living in the Nomadic Social Forager Malacosoma disstria
The present work has two main objectives; to determine the benefits and the mechanisms of group-living in M. disstria caterpillars. A combination of laboratory and field experiments showed that groups of M. disstria caterpillars can thermoregulate, that body temperatures achieved while basking in a...
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2011
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| Online Access: | http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/36125/1/McClure_PhD_S2012.pdf McClure, Melanie <http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/view/creators/McClure=3AMelanie=3A=3A.html> (2011) Benefits and Mechanisms of Group Living in the Nomadic Social Forager Malacosoma disstria. PhD thesis, Concordia University. |