Periodical cicadas use light for oviposition site selection
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Periodical cicadas use light for oviposition site selection.
Organisms use incomplete information from local experience to assess the suitability of potential habitat sites over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. Although ecologists have long recognized the importance of spatial scales in habitat selection, few studies have investigated the temporal scales of habitat selection. In particular, cues in the immediate environment may commonly provi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3676