On the wings of checkerspots : a model system for population biology
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On the wings of checkerspots : a model system for population biology
Oxford University Press, 2004
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-357) and index
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Description
Checkerspot butterflies have been used as an extraordinarily successful model system for more than four decades. This volume presents the first synthesis of the broad range of studies of that system as conducted in Ehrlich's research group in Stanford, in Hanski's research group in Helsinki and elsewhere. Ehrlich's long - term research project on Edith's checkerspot helped establish an intergrated disipline of population biology in the 1960s and ever since has
contributed many fundamental insights into the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of populations. Hanski's and his associates' work an the Glanville fritillary for the past 14 years has been instrumental in establishing the field of metapopulation biology and showing how theoretical and empirical work
can be effectively combined in the same project.
Table of Contents
- Personal Prefaces
- 1. Checkerspot Research: Background and Origins
- 2. Introducing Checkerspots: Taxonomy and Research
- 3. Structure and Dynamics of Euphydryas edith Populations
- 4. Structure and Dynamics of Melitea cinxia Metapopulations
- 5. Checkerspot Reproductive Biology
- 6. Oviposition Preference: Its Measurement, its Correlates and its Importance 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
- 11. Bay Checkerspot and Glanville Fritillary Compared with Other Species
- 12. Checkerspots as a Model System in Population Biology
- 13. Checkerspots and Conservation Biology
- 14. What have we Learned?
- 15. Afterword: A Look to the Future
- Acknowledgements
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