All natural habitat edges matter equally for endangered Maculinea butterflies

Journal of Insect Conservation

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 139-146

  Nowicki, Piotr ^a   Halecki, Wiktor ^a,b   Kalarus, Konrad ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE IN KRAKOW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Fragmentation; Habitat selection; Maculinea nausithous; Maculinea teleius; Mosaic landscape; Myrmica ants

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GIS; GPS; HABITAT SELECTION; LEGISLATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOFTWARE; SURVIVAL;

FORMICIDAE; MACULINEA; MACULINEA NAUSITHOUS; MACULINEA TELEIUS; MYRMICA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 84872648988     PISSN: 1366638X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10841-012-9492-1     Document Type: Article

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