Dragonflies cause spatial and temporal heterogeneity in habitat quality for butterflies

Insect Conservation and Diversity

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 257-264

  Sang, Anu ^a   Teder, Tiit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Adult predation; Butterfly conservation; Dragonfly; Habitat quality; Mortality; Odonata; Population dynamics; Source sink dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054056437     PISSN: 1752458X     EISSN: 17524598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4598.2011.00134.x     Document Type: Article

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