The effect of military training activity on eastern lupine and the Karner blue butterfly at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, USA

Environmental Management

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 102-115

  Smith, Mark A ^a   Turner, Monica G ^a   Rusch, Donald H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Endangered species; Karner blue butterfly; Lupine, Lupinus perennis; Lycaeides melissa samuelis; Military training

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; MILITARY OPERATIONS; PERSONNEL TRAINING;

MILITARY TRAINING;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

BUTTERFLY; DISTURBANCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; MILITARY LAND; REFUGE;

ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; CANOPY; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FEEDING; FIRE; GOVERNMENT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT PATCHINESS; LAND USE; LARVA; MILITARY SERVICE; MOTOR VEHICLE; NECTAR; NONHUMAN; OAK; PINE; TRAINING; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; LEGUME; PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOLDIER; TREE;

UNITED STATES;

LEPIDOPTERA; LUPINUS; LUPINUS PERENNIS; LYCAEIDES; LYCAEIDES MELISSA; LYCAENIDAE; MELISSA; QUERCUS;

ANIMAL; BUTTERFLIES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FABACEAE; FIRES; HUMAN; LARVA; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MOTOR VEHICLES; PLANTS, EDIBLE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; TREES;

EID: 0036134375     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-001-0044-9     Document Type: Article

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