Butterfly responses to cultivated field abandonment are related with ecological traits in a temperate Japanese agricultural landscape

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 125, Issue , 2014, Pages 174-182

  Ohwaki, Atsushi ^a   Ogawa, Hiroshi ^b   Taketani, Koji ^c   Tomisawa, Akira ^c  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Hakusan Nature Conservation Center   (Japan)

^c Ishikawa Insect Museum   (Japan)

Author keywords

Host plant use; Land use change; Satoyama; Succession; Voltinism

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; FORESTRY; LAND USE; VEGETATION;

HOST PLANTS; LAND-USE CHANGE; SATOYAMA; SUCCESSION; VOLTINISM;

BIODIVERSITY;

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANNUAL PLANT; BIODIVERSITY; BUTTERFLY; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CULTIVATION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HOST PLANT; PEST SPECIES; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUCCESSION; VEGETATION TYPE; VOLTINISM;

JAPAN;

EID: 84898924907     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2014.02.024     Document Type: Article

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