Empirical evidence for complex source-sink dynamics with alternative states in a butterfly metapopulation

Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 2727-2739

  Boughton, David A ^a,b  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Butterfly phenology; Colonization; Demography, source sink inversion; Euphydryas editha; Habitat effects on rate of larval development; Habitat specific colonization rates; Metapopulation; Population effects of host plant; Pseudosink; Source sink dynamics; Temporal barrier

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; HABITAT TYPE; METAPOPULATION; RECOLONIZATION;

EID: 0033428930     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1999)080[2727:EEFCSS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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