On the Wings of Checkerspots: A Model System for Population Biology

By Paul R. Ehrlich

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019515827X
• ISBN13: 9780195158274
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.