Insect population curves: modelling and application to butterfly transect data

Journal article

Monitoring the abundance of insect populations is increasingly valuable to understand their population dynamics, plan management strategies and assess the attainment of conservation targets. As monitoring is often constrained in time and space, it is important to have a model of the temporal variation in numbers to enable limited field data to be fitted into a broader framework, and to estimate the total detectable population on a site. We use adult butterflies as a study system, because they...

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Authors: Soulsby, R; Thomas, J

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 832-841
• Publication date: 2012-10-01
• DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2012.00227.x
• EISSN: 2041-210X
• ISSN: 2041-210X
• Language: English
• Keywords: Butterfly Monitoring Scheme; Hesperia comma; Melanargia galathea; Index of Abundance; conservation monitoring; Maculinea arion; abundance curves; survivorship curve