Invasive plants threaten the least mobile butterflies in Switzerland
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Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, CH-8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland, Department of Aquatic Ecology, Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, € Uberlandstrasse 133, CH-8600 D€ ubendorf, Switzerland, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstr. 190, CH-8057 Z€ urich, Switzerland, UFZ – Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Theodor-Lieser-Str. 4, 06120 Halle, Germany, Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany & Zoology, Stellenbosch University, 7602 Matieland, South Africa
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