Landscape effects on butterfly assemblages in an agricultural region

Ecography

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 619-628

  Bergman, Karl Olof ^a   Askling, John ^b   Ekberg, Oscar ^a   Ignell, Håkan ^b   Wahlman, Henrik ^b   Milberg, Per ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b CALLUNA AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION COVER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

ATHALIA; LEPIDOPTERA; MELITAEA; MELITAEA ATHALIA; NYMPHALIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 4544358518     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0906-7590.2004.03906.x     Document Type: Article

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