Alpine Parnassius butterfly dispersal: Effects of landscape and population size

Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1642-1653

  Roland, Jens ^a   Keyghobadi, Nusha ^a   Fownes, Sherri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alpine meadow; Butterfly dispersal; Connectivity; Dispersal; Habitat quality; Insect; Landscape; Mark recapture; Parnassius smintheus; Population size; Spatial; Tree line; Viscosity

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; DISPERSAL; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; POPULATION SIZE;

ALBERTA; CANADA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONIDAE; PARNASSIUS; PARNASSIUS SMINTHEUS;

EID: 0033923090     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/177313     Document Type: Article

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