Different flight behaviour of the endangered scarce large blue butterfly Phengaris teleius (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) within and outside its habitat patches

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 533-546

  Skórka, Piotr ^a   Nowicki, Piotr ^b   Lenda, Magdalena ^c   Witek, Magdalena ^d   Śliwińska, Ewa B ^a   Settele, Josef ^e   Woyciechowski, Michal ^b  

^a POZNA UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE OF NATURE CONSERVATION   (Poland)

^d MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (Poland)

^e HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Fragmentation; Maculinea; Metapopulation; Movement; Patch boundary

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BUTTERFLY; DECISION MAKING; DISPERSAL; EMIGRATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HETEROGENEITY; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; METAPOPULATION; MOVEMENT; OVIPOSITION; PATCHINESS;

ANIMALIA; LEPIDOPTERA; LYCAENIDAE; MACULINEA; MACULINEA ARION; PAPILIONOIDEA; PHENGARIS;

EID: 84874984292     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-013-9855-3     Document Type: Article

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