High water-loss rates and rapid dehydration in the burying beetle, Nicrophorus marginatus

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• beetle 70%
• dehydration 64%
• loss 33%
• rate 20%
• water 19%
• mortality 16%
• secretion 15%
• humidity 11%
• pitfall trap 10%
• activity pattern 8%
• desiccation 7%
• body mass 7%
• habitat type 7%
• relative humidity 6%
• moisture 5%
• temperature 5%
• habitat 4%
• summer 4%
• laboratory 3%
• prediction 3%
• soil 3%
• comparison 2%

Agriculture & Biology

• Nicrophorus 100%
• Coleoptera 46%
• water 26%
• Passalidae 20%
• Cicindelinae 19%
• Odontotaenius disjunctus 11%
• humidity 11%
• Silphidae 9%
• defensive secretions 9%
• pitfall traps 7%
• habitats 7%
• relative humidity 5%
• researchers 5%
• temperature 5%
• mouth 4%
• death 4%
• secretion 4%
• prediction 4%
• summer 4%
• soil 3%

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Coleoptera 97%
• Dehydration 68%
• Water 42%
• Humidity 18%
• Ecosystem 11%
• Mortality 8%
• Desiccation 7%
• Temperature 7%
• Soil 5%
• Research Personnel 3%