Effects of experimental habitat fragmentation on patch use by butterflies and skippers (Lepidoptera)

Ecology

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1360-1370

  Summerville, K S ^a   Crist, T O ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conservation; Habitat loss; Hesperioidea; Landscape; Papilionoidea; Patch quality; Patch size; Threshold

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY RESPONSE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; PATCH USE;

LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 0034975139     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2001)082[1360:EOEHFO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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