Long-distance autumn migration across the Sahara by painted lady butterflies: exploiting resource pulses in the tropical savannah

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Biology Letters

• Publication date

  2016-10-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0561PMID 27703055PMCID PMC5095192
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