The effect of an environmental change on mobile butterfly larvae and the nutritional quality of their hosts

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 925-936

  Hellmann, Jessica J ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Effect of temperature; Euphydryas editha bayensis; Host switching; Insect plant interaction; Phenology

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HOST USE; LARVA; NUTRITIVE VALUE; PHENOLOGY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALIA; EUPHYDRYAS; EUPHYDRYAS EDITHA; EUPHYDRYAS EDITHA BAYENSIS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; NYMPHALIDAE;

EID: 0036847743     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2656.2002.00658.x     Document Type: Article

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