Nested patterns in urban butterfly species assemblages: respective roles of plot management, park layout and landscape features

Urban Ecosystems

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 205-224

  Lizee, Marie Hélène ^a,b   Tatoni, Thierry ^a   Deschamps Cottin, Magali ^b  

^a AVIGNON UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b Aix Marseille University Marseille   (France)

Author keywords

Functional traits; Metacommunity; Redundancy analysis; Rhopalocera; SLOSS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944711568     PISSN: 10838155     EISSN: 15731642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11252-015-0501-5     Document Type: Article

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