Long-term metapopulation study of the Glanville fritillary butterfly (Melitaea cinxia): Survey methods, data management, and long-term population trends

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 3713-3737

  Ojanen, Sami P ^a   Nieminen, Marko ^a   Meyke, Evgeniy ^a   Pöyry, Juha ^b   Hanski, Ilkka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Climate change; EarthCape; Glanville fritillary; Habitat fragmentation; Long term population survey; Management of ecological data; Spatial synchrony of population dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887535322     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.733     Document Type: Article

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