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A 7-YEAR study of the behaviour and population ecology of imaginal dragonflies in Dorset, England, has revealed two features common to all fifteen species studied.
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MOORE, N. Population Density and Atypical Behaviour in Male Odonata. Nature 194, 503–504 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/194503a0
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