Hybridisation and climate change: Brown argus butterflies in Britain (Polyommatus subgenus Aricia)

Insect Conservation and Diversity

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 192-199

  Mallet, James ^a,b   Wynne, Ian R ^a   Thomas, Chris D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate warming; Conservation; Distributions; Extinction; Hybridisation; Lepidoptera; Lycaenidae; Voltinism

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960519483     PISSN: 1752458X     EISSN: 17524598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4598.2010.00122.x     Document Type: Article

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