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Research Article

Inter-annual variation in adult demography, but no sex bias in a large lowland population of the threatened Clouded Apollo Parnassius mnemosyne butterfly

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Pages 648-659 | Received 22 May 2023, Accepted 08 Aug 2023, Published online: 13 Sep 2023

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