High metabolic and water-loss rates in caterpillar aggregations: evidence against the resource-conservation hypothesis

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• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Journal of Experimental Biology

• Publication date

  2013-12-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1242/jeb.095554PMID 23997202
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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