Behind the scenes of population viability modeling: Predicting butterfly metapopulation dynamics under climate change

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 259, Issue , 2013, Pages 62-73

  Radchuk, Viktoriia ^a   Johst, Karin ^b   Groeneveld, Jürgen ^b,c   Grimm, Volker ^b,d   Schtickzelle, Nicolas ^a  

^a EARTH AND LIFE INSTITUTE   (Belgium)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Boloria eunomia; Glacial relict species; Individual based model; Life cycle; Model structure; Pattern oriented modeling; Population viability analysis

Indexed keywords

BOLORIA EUNOMIA; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODELS; PATTERN-ORIENTED MODELING; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; RELICT SPECIES;

CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LIFE CYCLE; MODEL STRUCTURES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BUTTERFLY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; LIFE CYCLE; METAPOPULATION; PARASITISM; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION SIZE; PREDICTION; TAXONOMY;

BOLORIA EUNOMIA;

EID: 84876965590     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2013.03.014     Document Type: Article

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