Making eggs from nectar: The role of life history and dietary carbon turnover in butterfly reproductive resource allocation

Oikos

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 279-291

  O'Brien, Diane M ^a,b   Boggs, Carol L ^a   Fogel, Marilyn L ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; CARBON; DIETARY SHIFT; EGG PRODUCTION; HERBIVORY; LIFE HISTORY; NECTARIVORY; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

COLIAS; COLIAS EURYTHEME; EUPHYDRYAS; EUPHYDRYAS CHALCEDONA; HELICONIUS; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; NYMPHALIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA; PIERIDAE; SPEYERIA; SPEYERIA MORMONIA;

EID: 1942489205     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2004.13012.x     Document Type: Article

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