Insect overwintering in a changing climate
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Insect overwintering in a changing climate.
Insects are highly successful animals inhabiting marine, freshwater and terrestrial habitats from the equator to the poles. As a group, insects have limited ability to regulate their body temperature and have thus required a range of strategies to support life in thermally stressful environments, including behavioural avoidance through migration and seasonal changes in cold tolerance. With resp...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Biology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1477-9145,0022-0949
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.037911