Butterfly abundance and movements among prairie patches: The roles of habitat quality, edge, and forest matrix permeability

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 897-906

  Stasek, David J ^a   Bean, Caitlin ^b   Crist, Thomas O ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Dispersal; Lepidoptera; Matrix habitat; Metapopulation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BUTTERFLY; CONNECTIVITY; DISPERSAL; EDGE EFFECT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; METAPOPULATION; MOVEMENT; PATCH DYNAMICS; PERMEABILITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRAIRIE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION MIGRATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; OHIO; POPULATION DENSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES;

FRITILLARIA (ANGIOSPERM); HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; NYMPHALIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA; PHYCIODES THAROS; PHYCIODES THAROS ARCTICA; SPEYERIA CYBELE;

EID: 50949094766     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X(2008)37[897:BAAMAP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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