Different habitat selection by two sympatric Maculinea butterflies at small spatial scale

Insect Conservation and Diversity

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 118-126

  Korösi, Ádám ^a   Örvössy, Noémi ^a   Batáry, Péter ^b   Harnos, Andrea ^c   Peregovits, László ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^d DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Forest edges; Grassland management; Local adaptation; Maculinea nausithous; Maculinea teleius; Myrmecophily; Myrmica ants; Niche overlap

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858247571     PISSN: 1752458X     EISSN: 17524598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4598.2011.00138.x     Document Type: Article

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