Effects of Successional Old Fields on Butterfly Richness and Abundance in Agricultural Landscapes

Great Lakes Entomologist

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 193-207

  Sanford, Monte P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

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