The role of weather-related habitat use on the impact of the European speckled wood Pararge aegeria on the endemic Pararge xiphia on the island of Madeira

Abstract

Habitat use and microclimatic constraints on the activity of the endemic Madeiran speckled wood butterfly and European speckled wood were studied in September 1989 and April 1990. The endemic species is the most closely associated with laurel forest and t