Old models explain new observations of butterfly movement at patch edges

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2061-2067

  Crone, Elizabeth E ^a   Schultz, Cheryl B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biased correlated random walk; Butterfly movement; Edge mediated dispersal; Emigration; Habitat fragmentation; Looping behavior; Navigation; Orientation; Search strategies

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BUTTERFLY; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EDGE EFFECT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HETEROGENEITY; MOVEMENT; PATCH DYNAMICS;

ANIMALIA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BUTTERFLY; ECOSYSTEM; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BUTTERFLIES; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT;

EID: 54549111158     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-1173.1     Document Type: Article

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