Butterfly distribution and abundance is affected by variation in the Swedish forest-farmland landscape

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2819-2831

  Berg, Åke ^a   Ahrné, Karin ^a   Öckinger, Erik ^a   Svensson, Roger ^a   Söderström, Bo ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Clear cut; Density; Forest road verge; Landscape composition; Power line corridor; Rhopalocera; Semi natural pasture; Species richness; Zygaenidae

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL LAND; BUTTERFLY; CLEARCUTTING; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; GRASSLAND; HABITAT CORRIDOR; HABITAT CREATION; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HABITAT MOSAIC; HOST PLANT; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MOBILITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PASTURE; POLLINATOR; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POWER LINE; RED LIST; SHRUB; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

SWEDEN;

HEXAPODA; PAPILIONOIDEA; RHOPALOCERA; ZYGAENIDAE;

EID: 83555176195     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.07.035     Document Type: Article

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