Pattern of land mosaics affecting butterfly assemblage at Mt Ikoma, Osaka, Japan

Ecological Research

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 105-118

  Natuhara, Yosihiro ^a   Imai, Chobei ^a   Takahashi, Mitsuko ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Butterfly; Conservation; Landscape ecology; Quercus forests

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; HABITAT MOSAIC; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; SCALE EFFECT;

JAPAN;

LEPIDOPTERA; QUERCUS;

EID: 0033151719     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1703.1999.00287.x     Document Type: Article

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