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- 1Adult resources
- 1Adult-larva dichotomy
- 1Alpine ecology
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- 1Alpine treeline
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Spring 2013
The Rocky Mountain apollo butterfly, Parnassius smintheus, and its host-plant Sedum lanceolatum, are endemic to open alpine meadows threatened by the encroachment of trees. I explore variability in interactions between P. smintheus and S. lanceolatum relative to the treeline-delimited meadow...
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Spring 2020
Human activities are increasingly fragmenting the natural world. A unifying theme in this thesis is understanding the expected diversity within artificially or naturally discrete habitat networks. I start by testing a common expectation regarding the species composition of small habitat patches,...