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Article: Findings from Stockholm University in biodiversity reported.(Report)
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- Ecology, Environment & Conservation
- Article date:
- November 20, 2009
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"It would be very useful for conservation biologists to be able to predict threat status from ecological characteristics of species, and past studies have shown promising results. Regarding one important threat indicator taxon, the butterflies, results from a study on Finnish species by Kotiaho et al. (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 102:1963-1967, 2005), suggested that threatened butterflies on average have narrower niches, more restricted distributions of the larval host plants, poorer dispersal abilities and shorter flight periods," scientists in Stockholm, Sweden report.
"However, this study did not control for phylogenetic relatedness of species. To examine the ...
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