Relative importance of density-dependent regulation and environmental stochasticity for butterfly population dynamics

Oecologia

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 227-239

  Nowicki, Piotr ^a   Bonelli, Simona ^b   Barbero, Francesca ^b   Balletto, Emilio ^b  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Inter specific competition; Maculinea; Mark recapture; Mowing regime; Weather

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BUTTERFLY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; ESTIMATION METHOD; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; POPULATION REGULATION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; STOCHASTICITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ITALY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; DATA COLLECTION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; ITALY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; MACULINEA; MACULINEA ALCON; MACULINEA TELEIUS; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 70349105045     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-009-1373-2     Document Type: Article

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