Female choice in the grasshopperChorthippus biguttulus

✍ Scribed by H. Kriegbaum

• Book ID: 104755778
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 213 KB
• Volume: 76
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0028-1042
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00396715

✦ Synopsis

their development. As a consequence, they show seasonal migration upstream in the river, probably aided by residual countercurrents which are known to occur between the jetties along the banks. A typical phenomenon observed among the migratory crustaceans is a strongly skewed sex ratio [3, 4]. A further penetration of brackish-water species can be expected, as long as dumping of salts in the River Rhine continues at the present rate.