Understanding the migration ecology of European red admirals Vanessa atalanta using stable hydrogen isotopes

Ecography

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 720-729

  Brattström, Oskar ^a   Bensch, Staffan ^a   Wassenaar, Leonard I ^b   Hobson, Keith A ^b   Åkesson, Susanne ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SITE; BUTTERFLY; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; ISOLATED POPULATION; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; MOVEMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; STABLE ISOTOPE; WING;

EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; PAPILIONOIDEA; VANESSA ATALANTA;

EID: 77957162953     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2009.05748.x     Document Type: Article

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