Modelling the effect of habitat fragmentation on range expansion in a butterfly

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1661, 2009, Pages 1421-1427

  Wilson, Robert J ^a   Davies, Zoe G ^b   Thomas, Chris D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Conservation; Habitat fragmentation; Landscape ecology; Metapopulation; Range expansion

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BUTTERFLY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLONIZATION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; METAPOPULATION; POPULATION MODELING; RANGE EXPANSION;

ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT PATCHINESS; HABITAT QUALITY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; METAPOPULATION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

HESPERIA COMMA;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENGLAND; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 65649143864     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0724     Document Type: Article

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