Can phenological shifts compensate for adverse effects of climate change on butterfly metapopulation viability?

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 227, Issue , 2012, Pages 72-81

  Cormont, Anouk ^a   Jochem, René ^a   Malinowska, Agnieszka ^a   Verboom, Jana ^a   WallisDeVries, Michiel F ^a,b   Opdam, Paul ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b DUTCH BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Habitat fragmentation; Landscape adaptation; Metapopulation model; Phenology; Population dynamics; Weather variability

Indexed keywords

HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LANDSCAPE ADAPTATION; METAPOPULATION MODEL; PHENOLOGY; WEATHER VARIABILITY;

CLIMATE MODELS; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; PHENOLS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADAPTATION; BUTTERFLY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMPENSATION; DATA SET; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; METAPOPULATION; PATCH SIZE; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; THRESHOLD; WARMING;

EID: 84855514446     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.12.003     Document Type: Article

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