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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.

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Author:   Paul R. Ehrlich (Bing Professor of Biological Sciences, Bing Professor of Biological Sciences, Stanford University) ,  Ilkka Hanski (Professor, Department of Ecology and Systematics, Professor, Department of Ecology and Systematics, University of Helsinki)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 25.70cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 18.50cm
Weight:   1.041kg
ISBN:  

9780195158274

ISBN 10:   019515827
Pages:   408
Publication Date:   25 March 2004
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Paul R. Ehrlich and Ilkka Hanski: Personal Prefaces 1: Paul R. Ehrlich and Ilkka Hanski: Checkerspot Research: Background and Origins 2: Dennis D. Murphy, Niklas Wahlberg, Ilkka Hanski, Paul R. Ehrlich: Introducing Checkerspots: Taxonomy and Research 3: Jessica J. Hellmann, Stuart B. Weiss, John F. McLaughlin, Paul R. Ehrlich, Dennis D. Murhpy, and Alan E. Launer: Structure and Dynamics of Euphydryas edith Populations 4: Structure and Dynamics of Melitea cinxia Metapopulations 5: Carol L. Boggs and Marko Nieminen: Checkerspot Reproductive Biology 6: Michael C. Singer: Oviposition Preference: Its Measurement, its Correlates and its Importance in the Life of Checkerspots 7: Mikko Kuussaari, Saskya van Nouhuys, Jessican Hellmann, and Michael C. Singer: Larval Biology of Checkerspots 8: Saskya van Nouhuys and Ilkka Hanski: Natural Enemies of Checkerspots 9: Michael C. Singer and Ilkka Hanski: Dispersal Behavior and Evolutionary Metapopulation Dynamics 10: Ilik J. Saccheri, Carol L. Boggs, Ilkka Hanski, Paul R. Ehrlich: Genetics of Checkerspot Populations 11: Niklas Wahlberg, Paul R. Ehrlich, Carol L. Boggs, and Ilkka Hanski: Bay Checkerspot and Glanville Fritillary Compared with Other Species 12: Ilkka Hanski, Jessica J. Hellmann, Carol L. Boggs, and John F. McLaughlin: Checkerspots as a Model System in Population Biology 13: Ilkka Hanski, Paul R. Ehrlich, Marko Nieminen, Dennis D. Murphy, Jessica J. Hellmann, Carol L. Boggs, and John F. McLaughlin: Checkerspots and Conservation Biology 14: Paul R. Ehrlich, Ilkka Hanski, and Carol L. Boggs: What have we Learned? 15: Ilkka Hanski and Paul R. Ehrlich: Afterword: A Look to the Future Acknowledgements

Reviews

Checkerspot butterflies are rightly celebrated in this book as important model organisms for applied conservation, as well as for our basic understanding in population biology. This is a very nicely edited and professionally produced book that is an important and useful review of checkerspot work over the past 40 years. -- TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution To cite the editors' ultimate purpose, the major intellectual challenge of population biology is understanding the functioning of natural populations - how they are distributed and structured, how and why their sizes change, and how they evolove. In many respects, the book offers basic insights into the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of insect populations generally, not just of checkerspots, and thus forms a classic of modern biology. -- Nature The book is well written, well produced, and error free... Overall, this is an excellent book, even for those that do not have a strong interest in population dynamics. The history of the projects, the biology of the butterflies, and the philosophies promoted are worthy of anybody's time. -- BioScience. ..although the book is an edited volume with 15 contributors, it was obviously well planned and reads more like the work of a single author. Its structure could be a model for anyone wanting to write an overview of their particular research system. I strongly recommend On the Wings ofCheckerspots to anyone interested in evolution, ecology, or entertaining and interesting stories about butterflies. -- Science This book should be required reading for all conservation biologists. -- Science

Checkerspot butterflies are rightly celebrated in this book as important model organisms for applied conservation, as well as for our basic understanding in population biology. This is a very nicely edited and professionally produced book that is an important and useful review of checkerspot work over the past 40 years. -- TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution<br> To cite the editors' ultimate purpose, the major intellectual challenge of population biology is understanding the functioning of natural populations - how they are distributed and structured, how and why their sizes change, and how they evolove. In many respects, the book offers basic insights into the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of insect populations generally, not just of checkerspots, and thus forms a classic of modern biology. -- Nature<br> The book is well written, well produced, and error free... Overall, this is an excellent book, even for those that do not have a strong interest in population dynamics. The history of the projects, the biology of the butterflies, and the philosophies promoted are worthy of anybody's time. -- BioScience<br> .,. although the book is an edited volume with 15 contributors, it was obviously well planned and reads more like the work of a single author. Its structure could be a model for anyone wanting to write an overview of their particular research system. I strongly recommend On the Wings of Checkerspots to anyone interested in evolution, ecology, or entertaining and interesting stories about butterflies. -- Science<br> This book should be required reading for all conservation biologists. -- Science<br>

Checkerspot butterflies are rightly celebrated in this book as important model organisms for applied conservation, as well as for our basic understanding in population biology. This is a very nicely edited and professionally produced book that is an important and useful review of checkerspot work over the past 40 years. -- TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution To cite the editors' ultimate purpose, the major intellectual challenge of population biology is understanding the functioning of natural populations - how they are distributed and structured, how and why their sizes change, and how they evolove. In many respects, the book offers basic insights into the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of insect populations generally, not just of checkerspots, and thus forms a classic of modern biology. -- Nature The book is well written, well produced, and error free... Overall, this is an excellent book, even for those that do not have a strong interest in population dynamics. The history of the projects, the biology of the butterflies, and the philosophies promoted are worthy of anybody's time. -- BioScience.. .although the book is an edited volume with 15 contributors, it was obviously well planned and reads more like the work of a single author. Its structure could be a model for anyone wanting to write an overview of their particular research system. I strongly recommend On the Wings of Checkerspots to anyone interested in evolution, ecology, or entertaining and interesting stories about butterflies. -- Science This book should be required reading for all conservation biologists. -- Science Checkerspot butterflies are rightly celebrated in this book as important model organisms for applied conservation, as well as for our basic understanding in population biology. This is a very nicely edited and professionally produced book that is an important and useful review of checkerspot work over the past 40 years. -- TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution To cite the editors' ultimate purpose, the major intellectual challenge of population biology is understanding the functioning of natural populations - how they are distributed and structured, how and why their sizes change, and how they evolove. In many respects, the book offers basic insights into the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of insect populations generally, not just of checkerspots, and thus forms a classic of modern biology. -- Nature The book is well written, well produced, and error free... Overall, this is an excellent book, even for those that do not have a strong interest in population dynamics. The history of the projects, the biology of the butterflies, and the philosophies promoted are worthy of anybody's time. -- BioScience.. .although the book is an edited volume with 15 contributors, it was obviously well planned and reads more like the work of a single author. Its structure could be a model for anyone wanting to write an overview of their particular research system. I strongly recommend On the Wings of Checkerspots to anyone interested in evolution, ecology, or entertaining and interesting stories about butterflies. -- Science This book should be required reading for all conservation biologists. -- Science Checkerspot butterflies are rightly celebrated in this book as important model organisms for applied conservation, as well as for our basic understanding in population biology. This is a very nicely edited and professionally produced book that is an important and useful review of checkerspot work over the past 40 years. -- TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution To cite the editors' ultimate purpose, the major intellectual challenge of population biology is understanding the functioning of natural populations - how they are distributed and structured, how and why their sizes change, and how they evolove. In many respects, the book offers basic insights into the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of insect populations generally, not just of checkerspots, and thus forms a classic of modern biology. -- Nature The book is well written, well produced, and error free... Overall, this is an excellent book, even for those that do not have a strong interest in population dynamics. The history of the projects, the biology of the butterflies, and the philosophies promoted are worthy of anybody's time. -- BioScience .,. although the book is an edited volume with 15 contributors, it was obviously well planned and reads more like the work of a single author. Its structure could be a model for anyone wanting to write an overview of their particular research system. I strongly recommend On the Wings of Checkerspots to anyone interested in evolution, ecology, or entertaining and interesting stories about butterflies. -- Science This book should be required reading for all conservation biologists. -- Science Checkerspot butterflies are rightly celebrated in this book as important model organisms for applied conservation, as well as for our basic understanding in population biology. This is a very nicely edited and professionally produced book that is an important and useful review of checkerspot work over the past 40 years. -- TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution To cite the editors' ultimate purpose, the major intellectual challenge of population biology is understanding the functioning of natural populations - how they are distributed and structured, how and why their sizes change, and how they evolove. In many respects, the book offers basic insights into the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of insect populations generally, not just of checkerspots, and thus forms a classic of modern biology. -- Nature The book is well written, well produced, and error free... Overall, this is an excellent book, even for those that do not have a strong interest in population dynamics. The history of the projects, the biology of the butterflies, and the philosophies promoted are worthy of anybody's time. -- BioScience , .. although the book is an edited volume with 15 contributors, it was obviously well planned and reads more like the work of a single author. Its structure could be a model for anyone wanting to write an overview of their particular research system. I strongly recommend On the Wings of Checkerspots to anyone interested in evolution, ecology, or entertaining and interesting stories about butterflies. -- Science This book should be required reading for all conservation biologists. -- Science Checkerspot butterflies are rightly celebrated in this book as important model organisms for applied conservation, as well as for our basic understanding in population biology. This is a very nicely edited and professionally produced book that is an important and useful review of checkerspot workover the past 40 years. -- TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution To cite the editors' ultimate purpose, the major intellectual challenge of population biology is understanding the functioning of natural populations - how they are distributed and structured, how and why their sizes change, and how they evolove. In many respects, the book offers basic insightsinto the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of insect populations generally, not just of checkerspots, and thus forms a classic of modern biology. -- Nature The book is well written, well produced, and error free... Overall, this is an excellent book, even for those that do not have a strong interest in population dynamics. The history of the projects, the biology of the butterflies, and the philosophies promoted are worthy of anybody's time. --BioScience.,. although the book is an edited volume with 15 contributors, it was obviously well planned and reads more like the work of a single author. Its structure could be a model for anyone wanting to write an overview of their particular research system. I strongly recommend On the Wings ofCheckerspots to anyone interested in evolution, ecology, or entertaining and interesting stories about butterflies. -- Science This book should be required reading for all conservation biologists. -- Science

<br> Checkerspot butterflies are rightly celebrated in this book as important model organisms for applied conservation, as well as for our basic understanding in population biology. This is a very nicely edited and professionally produced book that is an important and useful review of checkerspot work over the past 40 years. -- TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution<br> To cite the editors' ultimate purpose, the major intellectual challenge of population biology is understanding the functioning of natural populations - how they are distributed and structured, how and why their sizes change, and how they evolove. In many respects, the book offers basic insights into the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of insect populations generally, not just of checkerspots, and thus forms a classic of modern biology. -- Nature<br> The book is well written, well produced, and error free... Overall, this is an excellent book, even for those that do not have a strong interest in population dynamics. Th

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