The importance of fragmentation and habitat quality of urban grasslands for butterfly diversity

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 31-37

  Öckinger, Erik ^a,b   Dannestam, Åse ^b   Smith, Henrik G ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Landscape; Lepidoptera; Species richness; Urban ecology; Diversity

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; LAND USE;

CONNECTIVITY; LANDSCAPE; LEPIDOPTERA; SPECIES RICHNESS; URBAN ECOLOGY;

URBAN GROWTH;

BIODIVERSITY; BUTTERFLY; GRASSLAND; GREENSPACE; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT TYPE; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; URBAN AREA;

EURASIA; EUROPE; MALMO; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SKANE; SWEDEN;

LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 69849107557     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2009.05.021     Document Type: Article

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