Conserving community modules: A case study of the endangered lycaenid butterfly Maculinea alcon

Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3160-3173

  Mouquet, Nicolas ^a   Belrose, Valérie ^b   Thomas, Jeremy A ^c   Elmes, Graham W ^c   Clarke, Ralph T ^c   Hochberg, Michael E ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b DERF   (France)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Butterflies; Case model; Community module; Conservation; Gentiana pneumonanthe; Maculinea alcon; Management; Myrmica; Population dynamics; Social parasite

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

FORMICIDAE; GENTIANA; GENTIANA PNEUMONANTHE; LYCAENIDAE; MACULINEA ALCON; MYRMICA; MYRMICA SCABRINODIS; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 30644460954     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/04-1664     Document Type: Article

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