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The effect of conspecifics on individual male movement in Roesel's bush cricket, Metrioptera roeseli
Åsa Berggren 1*
  1 Department of Conservation Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
Correspondence to   *Åsa Berggren, Department of Entomology, PO Box 7044, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden. E-mail: Asa.Berggren@entom.slu.se

Current address: Department of Entomology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden.

Copyright Royal Entomological Society, 2005
KEYWORDS
Angle • individual-based models • intraspecific • introduction • invasion • male–male • Orthoptera • stridulation • Tettigoniidae

ABSTRACT

Abstract. 1. Individual movement behaviours of male Roesel's bush crickets were compared between individuals experimentally released with or without conspecifics.

2. Differences in movement behaviour were recorded between the groups, with individuals released with conspecifics moving faster and further.

3. The study shows that behavioural interactions between individuals need to be considered in population modelling. Empirical movement data derived from lone individuals would result in a significant underestimation of both population expansion (−38.1%) and inter-patch movement (−35.8%).


Accepted 26 August 2004

DIGITAL OBJECT IDENTIFIER (DOI)
10.1111/j.0307-6946.2005.00709.x About DOI

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