Keywords:
Butterflies-Ecology.
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Butterflies-Evolution.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
No detailed description available for "Butterflies".
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (775 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780226063195
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=5820975
DDC:
595.78/9
Language:
English
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword / Charles Lee Remington -- Preface -- I. Introduction: Butterflies, Test Systems, and Biodiversity / Paul R. Ehrlich -- II. Behavior -- 1. Visual Ecology of Adult Butterflies / Ronald L. Rutowski -- 2. Molecular and Physiological Diversity of Visual Mechanisms in Papilio / Adriana D. Briscoe -- 3. Hawkmoth Pollination in Arizona's Sonoran Desert: Behavioral Responses to Floral Traits / Robert A. Raguso and Mark A. Willis -- 4. Sexual Selection and the Evolution of Butterfly Mating Systems / Christer Wiklund -- 5. Mate Location and Competition for Mates in a Pupal Mating Butterfly / Erika I. Deinert -- III. Ecology -- 6. Phenofaunistics: Seasonality as a Property of Butterfly Faunas / Arthur M. Shapiro, Richard VanBuskirk, Greg Kareofelas, and William D. Patterson -- 7. Modeling Present and Potential Future Ranges of European Butterflies Using Climate Response Surfaces / Jane K. Hill, Chris D. Thomas, and Brian Huntley -- 8. Ink Marks and Molecular Markers: Examining the Effects of Landscape on Dispersal Using Both Mark-Recapture and Molecular Methods / Nusha Keyghobadi, Jens Roland, Sherri Fownes, and Curtis Strobeck -- 9. Environmental Variation, Life Histories, and Allocation / Carol L. Boggs -- 10. Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Checkerspot Butterfly -Host Plant Association: The Diverse Roles of Oviposition Preference / Michael C. Singer -- 11. Sex Linkage of Host Plant Use in Butterflies / Niklas Janz -- IV. Genetics And Evolutionary Dynamics -- 12. The Evolution of Butterfly Eyespot Patterns / Paul M. Brakefield and Antonia Monteiro -- 13. Mimicry and Melanism in Swallowtail Butterflies: Toward a Molecular Understanding / Richard ffrench-Constant and P. Bernhard Koch.
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14. Adaptive Novelty through Introgression in Heliconius Wing Patterns: Evidence for a Shared Genetic "Toolbox" from Synthetic Hybrid Zones and a Theory of Diversification / Lawrence E. Gilbert -- 15. Mechanistic Studies of Butterfly Adaptations / Ward B. Watt -- 16. Mate Location: A Matter of Design? Adaptive Morphological Variation in the Speckled Wood Butterfly / Hans Van Dyck -- 17. Hybrid Zone Ecology and Tiger Swallowtail Trait Clines in North America / J. Mark Scriber, Mark Deering, and Aram Stump -- V. Systematics And Species Diversification -- 18. Phylogenetic Relationships of the Riodinidae: Implications for the Evolution of Ant Association / Dana L. Campbell and Naomi E. Pierce -- 19. Phylogenetic Relationships of Ithomiinae based on First-Instar Larvae / Paulo Cesar Motta -- 20. Butterfly Molecular Systematics: From Species Definitions to Higher-Level Phylogenies / Felix Sperling -- 21. Species Concepts and Sibling Species: The Case of Leptidea sinapis and Leptidea reali / Jean-Francois Martin, Andre Gilles, and Henri Descimon -- 22. Evidence and Identity in Butterfly Systematics / Richard I. Vane-Wright -- VI. Conservation and Biodiversity -- 23. Butterflies and Conservation Planning in Madagascar: From Pattern to Practice / Claire Kremen, David C. Lees, and John P. Fay -- 24. Butterflies as Bioindicators for Climate Change Effects / Camille Parmesan -- 25. Movement Behavior and Minimum Patch Size for Butterfly Population Persistence / Elizabeth E. Crone and Cheryl B. Schultz -- 26. Biology of Extinctions in Butterfly Metapopulations / Ilkka Hanski -- VII. Synthesis: Butterflies as Model Systems in Ecology and Evolution---Present and Future / Ward B. Watt and Carol L. Boggs -- References -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Color plates follow page 366.
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