The chalk-hill blue polyommatus coridon (Lycaenidae, Lepidoptera) in a highly fragmented landscape: How sedentary is a sedentary butterfly?

Journal of Insect Conservation

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 311-316

  Schmitt, Thomas ^a   Habel, Jan C ^a   Besold, Joachim ^a   Becker, Tatjana ^a   Johnen, Linda ^a   Knolle, Martin ^a   Rzepecki, Andreas ^a   Schultze, Johannes ^a   Zapp, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Butterflies; Mark release recapture; Metapopulation; Semi natural calcareous grasslands; Within and between patch movements

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; CALCAREOUS GRASSLAND; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; METAPOPULATION; MIGRATION; POPULATION DENSITY; SURVIVAL;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; RHINELAND-PALATINATE;

LEPIDOPTERA; LYCAENIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA; POLYOMMATUS CORIDON;

EID: 33750626214     PISSN: 1366638X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10841-006-9000-6     Document Type: Article

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