Butterfly assemblages in a traditional agricultural landscape: Importance of secondary forests for conserving diversity, life history specialists and endemics

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1521-1539

  Ohwaki, Atsushi ^a   Tanabe, Shin Ichi ^b   Nakamura, Koji ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Echigo Matsunoyama Museum of Natural Science   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agricultural landscape; Biodiversity; Endemism; Japan; Life history; Satoyama; Vegetation association; Vegetation type

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIODIVERSITY; BUTTERFLY; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENDEMISM; GENERALIST; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HOST PLANT; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PADDY FIELD; SECONDARY FOREST; SPECIALIST; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; VOLTINISM;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 34250874693     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-006-9042-9     Document Type: Article

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