Correlated extinctions, colonizations and population fluctuations in a highly connected ringlet butterfly metapopulation

Oecologia

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 235-241

  Sutcliffe, Odette L ^a,b   Thomas, Chris D ^a   Yates, Tina J ^b   Nick Greatorex Davies, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aphantopus hyperantus; Drought; Environmental gradient; Population dynamics; Shade

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; DROUGHT; LOCAL EXTINCTION; METAPOPULATION; POPULATION FLUCTUATION; RINGLET; SHADE;

APHANTOPUS HYPERANTUS; LEPIDOPTERA; SATYRIDAE;

EID: 0030619362     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050078     Document Type: Article

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