Corridor and distance effects on interpatch movements: A landscape experiment with butterflies

Ecological Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 612-622

  Haddad, Nick M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Butterfly; Colonization; Conservation; Corridors; Dispersal; Euptoieta claudia; Habitat fragmentation; Interpatch distance; Interpatch movement; Junonia coenia; Landscape experiment

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; HABITAT CORRIDOR; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION;

EUPTOTIETA CLAUDIA; JUNONIA COENIA; LEPIDOPTERA; LINARIA CANADENSIS;

EID: 0033134707     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1999)009[0612:CADEOI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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