Low-quality habitat corridors as movement conduits for two butterfly species

Ecological Applications

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 250-257

  Haddad, Nick M ^a   Tewksbury, Joshua J ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Butterfly; Connectivity; Conservation; Corridor; Dispersal; Euptoieta claudia; Fragmentation; Gene flow; Habitat quality; Junonia coenia; Landscape experiment; Small populations

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; GENE FLOW; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; POPULATION SIZE;

COENIA; EUPTOIETA CLAUDIA; JUNONIA COENIA; LEPIDOPTERA; NYMPHALIDAE;

EID: 13944255532     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-5327     Document Type: Article

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