Unravelling the annual cycle in a migratory animal: Breeding-season habitat loss drives population declines of monarch butterflies

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 155-165

  Flockhart, D T Tyler ^a   Pichancourt, Jean Baptiste ^b   Norris, D Ryan ^a   Martin, Tara G ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agricultural intensification; Annual cycle; Conservation planning; Genetically modified organisms; Matrix modelling; Migratory connectivity; Transboundary conservation

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ASCLEPIAS; DANAUS PLEXIPPUS;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ASCLEPIAS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BUTTERFLY; CANADA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MEXICO; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; PROCEDURES; SEASON; SPECIES EXTINCTION; UNITED STATES;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ASCLEPIAS; BUTTERFLIES; CANADA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FEMALE; MEXICO; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84919875545     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12253     Document Type: Article

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