Habitat restoration for lupine and specialist butterflies

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 226-233

  Pfitsch, William A ^a   Williams, Ernest H ^a  

^a HAMILTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Frosted elfin butterfly; Habitat; Lupine; Restoration; Tree removal

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; HABITAT RESTORATION; HERB; HOST PLANT; POPULATION DECLINE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CALLOPHRYS; IRUS; LUPINUS PERENNIS; PAPILIONOIDEA; PINUS STROBUS;

EID: 62349132703     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2008.00370.x     Document Type: Article

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