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Acknowledgements
- Relative resource abundance explains butterfly biodiversity in island communities

 

We thank I. Hanski, R. Butlin, T. Fukami, J. Urabe, A. Mizuno, T. Yoshida, J. Bridle, M. Tokeshi, A. Satake, and S. Chiba for valuable comments on the manuscript and K. Saito, Y. Nukatsuka, and other member of the laboratory of Evolutionary Biology for field assistance. M.K. was supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research 15370007 from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

Footnotes  

Abbreviations: AIC, Akaike information criterion.

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kawata@mail.tains.tohoku.ac.jp

Freely available online through the PNAS open access option.

Author contributions: N.Y. and M.K. designed research; N.Y., J.Y., and M.K. performed research; N.Y., J.Y., and M.K. analyzed data; and M.K. wrote the paper.

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.

This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/0701583104/DC1.

© 2007 by The National Academy of Sciences of the USA


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