Configurational landscape heterogeneity shapes functional community composition of grassland butterflies

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 505-513

  Perović, David ^a   Gámez Virués, Sagrario ^a   Börschig, Carmen ^a   Klein, Alexandra Maria ^b   Krauss, Jochen ^c   Steckel, Juliane ^c   Rothenwöhrer, Christoph ^a   Erasmi, Stefan ^a   Tscharntke, Teja ^a   Westphal, Catrin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conservation; Functional diversity; Functional maps; Land use intensity; Lepidoptera; Management; Trait dominance

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BUTTERFLY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; EUROPEAN UNION; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; GRASSLAND; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT TYPE; HETEROGENEITY; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; PATCH SIZE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIALIST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

GERMANY;

LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 84924631389     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12394     Document Type: Article

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