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Use of genetic, climatic, and microbiological data to inform reintroduction of a regionally extinct butterfly.
Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology - 1 Aug 2018
Dincă Vlad, Bálint Zsolt, Vodă Raluca, Dapporto Leonardo, Hebert Paul D N, Vila Roger
Abstract excerpt
Species reintroductions are increasingly used as means of mitigating biodiversity loss. Besides habitat quality at the site targeted for reintroduction, the choice of source population can be critical for success. The butterfly Melanargia russiae (Esper´s marbled white) was extirpated from Hungary over 100 years ago, and a reintroduction program has recently been approved. We used museum specimens of this...
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