Effects of anthropogenic disturbances on the butterfly assemblage in an urban green area: The changes from 1990 to 2005 in Kanazawa Castle Park, Japan

Ecological Research

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 697-708

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

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Echigo Matsunoyama Museum of Natural Science   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic disturbance; Butterfly; Extinction and recolonization; Life history; Monitoring; Urban ecology

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BUTTERFLY; DEFORESTATION; EXTINCTION; GRASS; GRASSLAND; HERB; IMMIGRATION; LIFE HISTORY; RECOLONIZATION; URBAN AREA; URBAN ECOSYSTEM;

ASIA; CHUBU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; ISHIKAWA; JAPAN; KANAZAWA;

EID: 46749099370     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: 14401703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11284-007-0429-1     Document Type: Article

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