Habitat restoration facilitates an ecological trap for a locally rare, wetland-restricted butterfly

Insect Conservation and Diversity

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 184-191

  Severns, Paul M ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Biodiversity conservation; Butterfly conservation; Evolutionary traps; Habitat quality; Host plant apparency; Invasive species

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960483458     PISSN: 1752458X     EISSN: 17524598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4598.2010.00120.x     Document Type: Article

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