Reference needed

Soren Nylin soren.nylin at zoologi.su.se
Tue May 4 04:52:16 EDT 1999


At 19:50 03/05/99 +0000, you wrote:
>On 30 Apr 1999 14:19:46 -0700, cbrdar at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (C.Brdar)
>wrote:
>>Do any butterfly biologists out there have a reference for a paper that came
>>out about 15 years ago in one of the major journals called "sun-patches as
>>resources" or something like that?
>
>Hi Corrina,
>
>I think you're looking for
>
>Davies, N.B. (1978) Territorial Defence in the Speckled Wood Butterfly
>(Pararge aegeria): the resident always wins. Animal Behaviour 26:
>138-147.
>
>Phil
>
>---
>Dr. Phil Schappert
>
>

But anyone who reads Davies' paper is compelled to read the follow-up:

Wickman, P.-O.&Wiklund, C. (1983) Territorial defence and its seasonal decline
in the speckled wood butterfly (Pararge aegeria). Anim Behav , 31: 1206-1216.

And there is much more to this story.... 

Best regards

Soren



Soren Nylin
Lecturer/Associate Professor of Animal Ecology

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