Higher establishment success in more diverse groups of pygmy grasshoppers under seminatural conditions

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2519-2525

  Wennersten, Lena ^a   Johansson, Jenny ^a   Karpestam, Einat ^a   Forsman, Anders ^a  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Colonization; Color morphs; Conservation biology; Establishment; Phenotypic diversity; Polymorphism; Pygmy grasshopper; Tetrix subulata; Translocation; Variable founder groups

Indexed keywords

PIGMENT;

COLONIZATION; COLOR MORPH; COMPLEMENTARITY; FOUNDER EFFECT; GRASSHOPPER; HABITAT CONSERVATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POLYMORPHISM; REINTRODUCTION; TRANSLOCATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAELIFERA; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENETIC VARIATION; GRASSHOPPERS; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

TETRIGIDAE; TETRIX SUBULATA;

EID: 84871746965     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-0550.1     Document Type: Article

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