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Higher establishment success in more diverse groups of pygmy grasshoppers under seminatural conditions.
Ecology - 1 Dec 2012
Wennersten Lena, Johansson Jenny, Karpestam Einat, Forsman Anders
Abstract excerpt
Large founder groups and habitat match have been shown to increase the establishment success of reintroduced populations. Theory posits that the diversity of founder groups should also be important, but this has rarely been investigated. Here, experimental introductions of color-polymorphic Tetrix subulata pygmy grasshoppers into outdoor enclosures were used to test whether higher phenotypic diversity promotes...
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