Article PDF
References
Dowdeswell, W H, Fisher, R A, and Ford, E B. 1940. The quantitative study of populations in the Lepidoptera. 1. Polyommatus icarus Rott. Ann Eugen 10, 123–136.
Fisher, R A, and Ford, E B. 1947. The spread of a gene in natural conditions in a colony of moth Panaxia dominula L. Heredity 1, 143–174.
Fisher, R A, and Ford, E B. 1928. The variability of species in the Lepidoptera with reference to abundance and sex. Trans Ent Soc Lond, 76, 367–384.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Dowdeswell, W., Fisher, R. & Ford, E. The quantitative study of populations in the Lepidoptera. Heredity 3, 67–84 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1949.3
Received:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1949.3
This article is cited by
-
How the Modern Synthesis Came to Ecology
Journal of the History of Biology (2019)
-
EB Ford revisited: assessing the long-term stability of wing-spot patterns and population genetic structure of the meadow brown butterfly on the Isles of Scilly
Heredity (2017)
-
Floral resource limitation severely reduces butterfly survival, condition and flight activity in simplified agricultural landscapes
Oecologia (2016)
-
Population dynamics of the japanese clouded apollo Parnassius glacialisbutler (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). I. changes in population size and related population parameters for three successive generations
Population Ecology (1985)
-
Population dynamics of Luehdorfia japonica Leech (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae)
Population Ecology (1984)