Towards a measure of functional connectivity: Local synchrony matches small scale movements in a woodland edge butterfly

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1109-1120

  Powney, Gary D ^a,b   Broaders, Lorraine K ^a,c   Oliver, Tom H ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aphantopus hyperantus; Dispersal corridors; Habitat matrix; Landscape permeability; Population synchrony

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; CONSPECIFIC; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT CORRIDOR; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; PERMEABILITY; SAMPLING; SURROGATE METHOD; TIME SERIES;

UNITED KINGDOM;

APHANTOPUS HYPERANTUS;

EID: 84865993720     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-012-9771-y     Document Type: Article

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