Restoring lepidopteran communities to oak savannas: Contrasting influences of habitat quantity and quality

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 120-128

  Summerville, Keith S ^a   Steichen, Renae M ^a   Lewis, Michelle N ^a  

^a DRAKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Connectivity; Disturbance; Iowa; Moths; Principal components analysis; Restoration ecology

Indexed keywords

HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT QUALITY; PATCH SIZE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SAVANNA; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

IOWA; NEAL SMITH NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

GLEDITSIA TRIACANTHOS; LEPIDOPTERA; MORUS (PLANT); MORUS ALBA; QUERCUS;

EID: 16344389419     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2005.00014.x     Document Type: Article

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