Habitat choice precedes host plant choice - Niche separation in a species pair of a generalist and a specialist butterfly

Oikos

Volumn 117, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1337-1344

  Friberg, Magne ^a   Olofsson, Martin ^a   Berger, David ^a   Karlsson, Bengt ^a   Wiklund, Christer ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; GENERALIST; HABITAT SELECTION; HOST PLANT; LABORATORY METHOD; LEGUME; MEADOW; NICHE PARTITIONING; SPECIALIST; SYMPATRY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; IRELAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; SWEDEN; WESTERN EUROPE;

LATHYRUS; LATHYRUS PRATENSIS; LEPTIDEA REALI; PAPILIONOIDEA; SINAPIS;

EID: 48149115750     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2008.16740.x     Document Type: Article

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