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The Northwest Salmon Crisis: A Documentary History - Book Review, Chris Friday
The Northwest Salmon Crisis: A Documentary History - Book Review, Chris Friday
History Faculty and Staff Publications
In this work, editors Joseph Cone and Sandy Ridlington have brought together an impressive set of documents dating from the mid-1850s treaties with Native Americans to the present. The authors divide the volume into four sections that cover the ideologies and parties involved in the debates over the place and role of salmon fisheries.
Host Plant Phenology And Dispersal By A Montane Butterfly: Causes And Consequences Of Uphill Movement, Merrill A. Peterson
Host Plant Phenology And Dispersal By A Montane Butterfly: Causes And Consequences Of Uphill Movement, Merrill A. Peterson
Biology Faculty and Staff Publications
In the Wenatchee Mountains of central Washington State, populations of the lycaenid butterfly Euphilotes enoptes occur patchily with their sole host plant, Eriogonum compositum (Polygonaceae). Nearly all courtship and adult feeding occur on the inflorescences of this long-lived perennial. Furthermore, because females oviposit on inflorescences and larvae feed only on flowers and developing seeds, the window of opportunity for exploiting this resource is narrow. I demonstrated that inflorescence phenology varied according to the aspect and elevation of plant patches, and butterflies were most likely to occur in patches nearing full bloom. A mark–release–recapture study revealed that individual butterflies can disperse …