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Degrees of specialism in butterflies: a method for defining levels of specialism and an evaluation of South African species
Jeremy C.H. Dobson
Abstract
Butterflies may be specialists, generalists, or somewhere in between. In this paper, we propose a method for defining various categories of specialism, test the robustness of the method, and allocate all South African butterfly species to a category. The results are then evaluated and discussed.
