Species Survival in Fragmented Landscapes

The effects of isolation, area size, and habitat quality on the survival of animal and plant populations in the cultural landscape are central aspects of a research project started in Germany in 1993 (,Forschungsverbund, Isolation, FHichengroBe und Biotop

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The GeoJournal Library Volume 35 Series Editor:

Wolf Tietze, Helmstedt, Germany

Editorial Board:

Paul Claval, France R. G. Crane, U.S.A. Yehuda Gradus, Israel Risto Laulajainen, Sweden Gerd LOttig, Germany Walther Manshard, Germany Osamu Nishikawa, Japan Peter Tyson, South Africa

The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.

Species Survival in Fragmented Landscapes edited by

JOSEF SETTELE Department of Semi-Natural Landscapes, UFZ, Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle Ltd., Leipzig, Germany

CHRIS MARGULES Division of Wildlife and Ecology, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia

PETER POSCHLOD Department of Nature Conservation II, Faculty of Biology, Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany

and

KLAUS HENLE Department of Semi-Natural Landscapes, UFZ, Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle Ltd., Leipzig, Germany

KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS DORDRECHT / BOSTON / LONDON

A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

ISBN-13: 978-94-010-6640-2 e-ISBN-13: 978-94-009-0343-2 001:10.1007/978-94-009-0343-2

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

Xl

Contributors

xiii

PART I CASE STUDIES ON SPECIES SURVIVAL IN FRAGMENTED LANDSCAPES The case for a science-based strategy of conserving threatened butterfly populations in the UK and north Europe

I.A. Thomas Decline and rehabilitation of the Apollo butterfly Pamassius apollo (LINNAEUS, 1758) in the Pieniny National Park (Polish Carpathians)

7

Z. Witkowski and P. Adamski Effects of habitat fragmentation on the butterfly Maculinea alcon in the Netherlands I. Wynhoff, I.G.B. Oostermeijer, M. Scheper, and I.G. van der

15

Made Forest resource management and the conservation of arboreal marsupials in Central Victoria, South-Eastern Australia

24

D.B. Lindenmayer The conservation biology of a specialist and generalist gecko in the fragmented landscape of the Western Australian wheatbelt

39

S. Sarre, K. Wiegand, and K. Henle Bird population dynamics in relation to habitat quality

52

O. Bourski Population size, genetic variation, and related parameters in small, isolated plant populations: a case study

61

I. G.B. Oostermeijer Habitat networks in the fragmented landscape of the Western Australian wheatbelt: Prel