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Hanski, a leading thinker in metapopulation ecology, studies checkerspot butterfly populations in Finland. Ehrlich, one of the leading ecologists and conservation biologist, investigates checkerspot butterfly populations in California. This book reports on and synthsizes the major long-term research of both workers' careers on the population biology of checkerspot butterflies.
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Integrating the work of long-term research projects conducted by groups headed by Erlich (population studies, Stanford U., US) and Hanski (ecology, U. of Helsinki, Finland), this volume provides an overview of the biology, evolutionary science, and ecology of checkerspot butterfly population dynamics. Advancing the research as an example of population biology modeling, contributors cover such topics as taxonomy and ecology, the structure and dynamics of metapopulations, reproductive and larval biology, dispersal behavior and evolutionary metapopulation dynamics, and checkerspots and conservation biology. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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