An Experimental Study of Migration in the Glanville Fritillary Butterfly Melitaea cinxia

1996/11/01 by Mikko Kuussaari, Marko Nieminen, Ilkka Hanski · 327 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Environmental Science · #Abundance (ecology) #Archaeology #Biology #Butterfly #Demography #Ecology #Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies #Emigration #Geography #Habitat #Plant Parasitism and Resistance #Plant and animal studies #Population #Population density

paper · doi:10.2307/5677

published in Journal of Animal Ecology 65(6), 791 (Wiley)

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Abstract

Mikko Kuussaari, Marko Nieminen, Ilkka Hanski, An Experimental Study of Migration in the Glanville Fritillary Butterfly Melitaea cinxia, Journal of Animal Ecology, Vol. 65, No. 6 (Nov., 1996), pp. 791-801

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