Incorporating landscape elements into a connectivity measure: A case study for the Speckled wood butterfly (Pararge aegeria L.)

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 561-573

  Chardon, J Paul ^a,b   Adriaensen, Frank ^b   Matthysen, Erik ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Belgium; Butterfly; Connectivity; Cost distance; Effective distance; GIS; Landuse type; Resistance value; Spatial configuration

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVITY; DISPERSAL; GIS; HABITAT USE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

LEPIDOPTERA; NYMPHALIDAE; PARARGE; PARARGE AEGERIA;

EID: 0344099643     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026062530600     Document Type: Article

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