Vertical-Looking Radar: A New Tool for Monitoring High-Altitude Insect Migration
Open Access
- 1 January 2003
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in BioScience
- Vol. 53 (5) , 503-511
- https://doi.org/10.1641/0006-3568(2003)053[0503:vrantf]2.0.co;2
Abstract
Many insect species engage in high-altitude, wind-borne migration, often several hundred meters above the ground. At these heights they can use the wKeywords
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