Population resilience to an extreme drought is influenced by habitat area and fragmentation in the local landscape

Ecography

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 579-586

  Oliver, Tom H ^a   Brereton, Tom ^b   Roy, David B ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DROUGHT STRESS; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENTOMOLOGY; EXTREME EVENT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; WARMING; WOODLAND;

UNITED KINGDOM;

APHANTOPUS HYPERANTUS;

EID: 84876807095     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2012.07665.x     Document Type: Article

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