Host plant preference and performance of the sibling species of butterflies Leptidea sinapis and Leptidea reali: A test of the trade-off hypothesis for food specialisation

Oecologia

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 127-137

  Friberg, Magne ^a   Wiklund, Christer ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Diapause direct development; Generalism specialism; Habitat; Host plant shifts; Species divergence

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; DIAPAUSE; HOST PLANT; HOST PREFERENCE; HOST RANGE; HOST SELECTION; NICHE PARTITIONING; SIBLING; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LARVA; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LARVA; MALE; PLANTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

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

EID: 58549110679     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-008-1206-8     Document Type: Article

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