Effects of spatial heterogeneity on butterfly species richness in Rocky Mountain National Park, CO, USA

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 739-763

  Kumar, Sunil ^a   Simonson, Sara E ^a   Stohlgren, Thomas J ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Akaike's information criterion; Butterfly species richness; FRAGSTATS; Landscape context; Landscape metrics; Model selection; Plant species richness; Spatial autocorrelation; Spatial heterogeneity; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; BUTTERFLY; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT USE; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; NDVI; PATCH SIZE; PLANT COMMUNITY; SHRUBLAND; SPECIES RICHNESS; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

COLORADO; NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK; UNITED STATES;

EID: 60449112979     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-008-9536-8     Document Type: Article

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