Effect of local weather on butterfly flight behaviour, movement, and colonization: Significance for dispersal under climate change

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 483-503

  Cormont, Anouk ^a   Malinowska, Agnieszka H ^a   Kostenko, Olga ^a   Radchuk, Victoria ^a   Hemerik, Lia ^a   WallisDeVries, Michiel F ^a,b   Verboom, Jana ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b DUTCH BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bout duration; Cloudiness; Colonization probability; Habitat fragmentation; Lepidoptera; Net displacement; Proportion of time spent flying; Radiation; Temperature; Weather

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD COVER; COLONIZATION; DISPERSAL; ECTOTHERMY; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MOBILITY; MOVEMENT; PROBABILITY;

COENONYMPHA PAMPHILUS; LEPIDOPTERA; MANIOLA JURTINA; MELITAEA ATHALIA; PAPILIONOIDEA; PLEBEJUS ARGUS;

EID: 79951768343     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-010-9960-4     Document Type: Article

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