Plant quality and local adaptation undermine relocation in a bog specialist butterfly

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 244-254

  Turlure, Camille ^a,b   Radchuk, Viktoriia ^a   Baguette, Michel ^b,c   Meijrink, Mark ^d   van den Burg, Arnold ^e   De Vries, Michiel Wallis ^f,g   van Duinen, Gert Jan ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d VAN HALL LARENSTEIN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^f DUTCH BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION   (Netherlands)

^g WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Applied ecology; Conservation; Evolutionary ecology; Insect plant interactions; Local adaptation; Relocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886295540     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.427     Document Type: Article

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