Tracking the effects of one century of habitat loss and fragmentation on calcareous grassland butterfly communities

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3423-3436

  Polus, Emmanuelle ^a   Vandewoestijne, Sofie ^a   Choutt, Julie ^a   Baguette, Michel ^a  

^a Biodiversity Research Center   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Butterflies; Community structure; Ecological drift; Generalist species; Grassland; Habitat fragmentation; Habitat loss; Land cover; Specialist species

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; CALCAREOUS GRASSLAND; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; GENERALIST; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; LAND COVER; PATCH SIZE; SPECIALIST; SPECIES RICHNESS; TRACKING;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

HEXAPODA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 36148948217     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-006-9008-y     Document Type: Article

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