Using chemo-taxonomy of host ants to help conserve the large blue butterfly

Biological Conservation

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 39-43

  Guillem, R M ^a   Drijfhout, F P ^b   Martin, S J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chemo taxonomy; Conservation; Cuticular hydrocarbons; Myrmica sabuleti; Myrmica scabrinodis; Phengaris arion

Indexed keywords

ACTION PLAN; ANT; BUTTERFLY; CHEMOTAXONOMY; CUTICLE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION; HOST; HYDROCARBON; IDENTIFICATION KEY; PALEARCTIC REGION; PRIORITIZATION; REINTRODUCTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

ARION; FORMICIDAE; MACULINEA ARION; MYRMICA; MYRMICA SABULETI; MYRMICA SCABRINODIS; PHENGARIS;

EID: 84857418906     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.01.066     Document Type: Article

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