We review the literature on the influence of landscape structure on butterfly distribution and
movement. We start by examining the definition of landscape commonly used in spatial …

Habitat loss and fragmentation, exacerbated by projected climate change, present the
greatest threats to preservation of global biodiversity. As increasing habitat fragmentation …

1. We studied factors affecting emigration and immigration behaviour in the butterfly
Melitaea cinxia by releasing 882 newly emerged marked butterflies into 16 habitat patches …

We studied the consequences of behaviour at habitat patch boundaries on dispersal for the
bog fritillary butterfly Proclossiana eunomia Esper in two networks of habitat differing in …

Metapopulation dynamics lead to predictable patterns of habitat occupancy, population
density and trophic structure in relation to landscape features such as habitat patch size and …

Background Dispersal between habitat patches is a key process in the functioning of (meta)
populations. As distance between suitable habitats increases, the ongoing process of …

The recent development of landscape ecology emphasizes the importance of connectivity
for population viability. Landscape connectivity is the degree to which the landscape …

Abstract Data from the Greater Manchester Butterfly Atlas (UK) reveal a highly significant
and substantial impact of visits on both species' richness and species' incidence in squares …

The movement of adults of the endangered Apollo butterfly, Parnassius apollo, was studied
using mark–recapture data, within a population consisting of discrete patches of the species' …

1. A linear relationship between mean movement distances recorded and the size of the
study area was found in a comparison of five mark–release–recapture studies of the …