When random sampling does not work: Standard design falsely indicates maladaptive host preferences in a butterfly

Ecology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-6

  Singer, Michael C ^a,c   Stefanescu, Constantí ^b   Pen, Ido ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b Butterfly Monitoring Scheme ^*  (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceptability; Euphydryas; Insect Plant interactions; Parasite Host interactions; Preference; Random sampling

Indexed keywords

HOST PREFERENCE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; OVIPOSITION; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION;

AURINIA; EUPHYDRYAS; EUPHYDRYAS AURINIA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PAPILIONOIDEA; SUCCISA; SUCCISA PRATENSIS;

EID: 0036172348     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2002.00282.x     Document Type: Article

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