Maintaining critical habitat in a heavily managed landscape: Effects of power line corridor management on Karner blue butterfly (Lycaeides melissa samuelis) habitat

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 488-498

  Forrester, Jodi A ^a   Leopold, Donald J ^a   Hafner, Sasha D ^a,b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Blue lupine; Karner blue butterfly; Lupin us perennis; Pine barrens; Power line corridor; Rights of way

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT CORRIDOR; HABITAT MANAGEMENT;

LUPINUS PERENNIS; LYCAEIDES MELISSA SAMUELIS; MELISSA OFFICINALIS;

EID: 29144446280     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2005.00061.x     Document Type: Article

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