Global warming, human population pressure, and viability of the world's smallest butterfly

Conservation Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1113-1124

  Hoyle, Martin ^a,b   James, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Grazing; Habitat fragmentation; Incidence function model; Lycaenidae; Metapopulation; Pseudophilotes; Sinai

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; GLOBAL WARMING; GRAZING; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; LYCAENIDAE; PSEUDOPHILOTES;

EID: 27944474654     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2005.00166.x     Document Type: Article

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