A highway intersection as an alternative habitat for a meadow butterfly: Effect of mowing, habitat geometry and roads on the ringlet (Aphantopus hyperantus)

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 545-556

  Valtonen, Anu ^a   Saarinen, Kimmo ^a  

^a Etela karjalan Allergia ja Ymparistoinstituutti   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT QUALITY; MOVEMENT; MOWING; ROADSIDE ENVIRONMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

APHANTOPUS HYPERANTUS;

EID: 27744569414     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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