Relative Importance of Quantity, Quality and Isolation of Patches for Butterfly Diversity in Fragmented Urban Forests

Ecological Research

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 265-271

  Soga, Masashi ^a   Koike, Shinsuke ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Butterfly assemblages; Forest fragmentation; Fragmentation effects; Habitat quality; Species area relationship

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; CONNECTIVITY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HERB; HOST PLANT; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; NECTAR; SHAPE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; URBAN AREA; URBAN FORESTRY;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; TOKYO [KANTO];

EID: 84858796399     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: 14401703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11284-011-0896-2     Document Type: Article

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