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Population structure of a large blue butterfly and its specialist parasitoid in a fragmented landscape.
Molecular ecology - 1 Sept 2007
Anton Christian, Zeisset Inga, Musche Martin, Durka Walter, Boomsma Jacobus J, Settele Josef
Abstract excerpt
Habitat fragmentation may interrupt trophic interactions if herbivores and their specific parasitoids respond differently to decreasing connectivity of populations. Theoretical models predict that species at higher trophic levels are more negatively affected by isolation than lower trophic level species. By combining ecological data with genetic information from microsatellite markers we tested this hypothesis on...
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