Download or read book On the Wings of Checkerspots written by Paul R. Ehrlich and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-18 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.