Range expansion through fragmented landscapes under a variable climate

Ecology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 921-929

  Bennie, Jonathan ^a   Hodgson, Jenny A ^b,c   Lawson, Callum R ^a,d   Holloway, Crispin T R ^e   Roy, David B ^f   Brereton, Tom ^g   Thomas, Chris D ^b   Wilson, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^e SUSSEX WILDLIFE TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^f CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^g BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Colonisation; Environmental threshold model; Extinction; Habitat networks; Mechanistic model; Metapopulation dynamics; Microrefugia; Species distribution

Indexed keywords

HESPERIA COMMA;

EID: 84931748949     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12129     Document Type: Article

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