Life-history traits and landscape characteristics predict macro-moth responses to forest fragmentation

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1519-1530

  Slade, Eleanor M ^a,b   Merckx, Thomas ^a,c   Riutta, Terhi ^a   Bebber, Daniel P ^d   Redhead, David ^a   Riordan, Philip ^a   Macdonald, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c EARTH AND LIFE INSTITUTE   (Belgium)

^d EARTHWATCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agricultural matrix; Citizen science; Dispersal ability; Habitat fragmentation; Habitat specificity; Landscape connectivity; Lepidoptera; Mark release recapture; Species mobility; Temperate woodland

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CONNECTIVITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISPERSAL; EDGE EFFECT; ENTOMOLOGY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HEDGEROW; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MOBILITY; MOTH; SPECIALIST; TEMPERATE FOREST; WING MORPHOLOGY; WOODLAND;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MOTH; PHYSIOLOGY; TREE;

ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MOTHS; TREES;

EID: 84880543283     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-1366.1     Document Type: Article

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