| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 371 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Contents; Contributors; 1 Checkerspot Research: Background and Origins; 2 Introducing Checkerspots: Taxonomy and Ecology; 3 Structure and Dynamics of Euphydryas editha Populations; 4 Structure and Dynamics of Melitaea cinxia Metapopulations; 5 Checkerspot Reproductive Biology; 6 Measurement, Correlates, and Importance of Oviposition Preference in the Life of Checkerspots; 7 Larval Biology of Checkerspots; 8 Natural Enemies of Checkerspots; 9 Dispersal Behavior and Evolutionary Metapopulation Dynamics; 10 Genetics of Checkerspot Populations. |
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11 Bay Checkerspot and Glanville Fritillary Compared with Other Species12 Checkerspots as a Model System in Population Biology; 13 Checkerspots and Conservation Biology; 14 What Have We Learned?; 15 A Look to the Future; References; Index. |
| Summary |
Personal Prefaces, Paul R. Ehrlich and Ilkka Hanski. 1. Checkerspot Research: Background and Origins, Paul R. Ehrlich and Ilkka Hanski. 2. Introducing Checkerspots: Taxonomy and Research, Dennis D. Murphy, Niklas Wahlberg, Ilkka Hanski, Paul R. Ehrlich. 3. Structure and Dynamics of Euphydryas edith Populations, Jessica J. Hellmann, Stuart B. Weiss, John F. McLaughlin, Paul R. Ehrlich, Dennis D. Murhpy, and Alan E. Launer. 4. Structure and Dynamics of Melitea cinxia Metapopulations. 5. Checkerspot Reproductive Biology, Carol L. Boggs and Marko Nieminen. 6. Oviposition Preference: Its Measuremen. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Nymphalidae.
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Nymphalidae. |
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Population biology.
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Population biology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Ehrlich, Paul R.
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Hanski, Ilkka.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: On the wings of checkerspots. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004 (DLC) 2003051740 |
| ISBN |
9780198035947 (electronic book) |
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0198035942 (electronic book) |
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1280837993 |
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9781280837999 |
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019515827X (Cloth) |
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