Designing a network for butterfly habitat restoration: Where individuals, populations and landscapes interact

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 725-736

  Mcintire, Eliot J B ^a,c   Schultz, Cheryl B ^b   Crone, Elizabeth E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fender's blue butterfly; Habitat connectivity; Landscape model; Reserve design; Restoration; Spatially explicit individual based model; Stepping stones

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BUTTERFLY; CONNECTIVITY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT RESTORATION; METAPOPULATION; PERSISTENCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING;

NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; UNITED STATES; WILLAMETTE VALLEY;

ICARICIA ICARIOIDES;

EID: 34347404098     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2007.01326.x     Document Type: Article

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