Successful conservation of a threatened Maculinea butterfly

Science

Volumn 325, Issue 5936, 2009, Pages 80-83

  Thomas, J A ^a,b   Simcox, D J ^b   Clarke, R T ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; LARVA; MODEL VALIDATION; POPULATION DECLINE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANT; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEMALE; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; LARVA; NONHUMAN; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; UNITED KINGDOM; VEGETATION;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BUTTERFLIES; CLIMATIC PROCESSES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; LAMIACEAE; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; OVIPOSITION; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; MACULINEA; MACULINEA ARION; MYRMICA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 67650079175     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1175726     Document Type: Article

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