Distribution of Cranberry Blue Butterflies (Agriades optilete) and Their Responses to Forest Disturbance from In Situ Oil Sands and Wildfires

• Published in: Diversity
• Main Authors: Federico Riva, John H. Acorn, Scott E. Nielsen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2018
• Subjects: habitat fragmentation; boreal forest; detection probability; Bayesian hierarchical model; lycaenidae; corridor; seismic lines; N-mixture model; Biology (General); QH301-705.5; Canada; Wood Buffalo
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/d10040112; https://doaj.org/article/63e1565400434848966b1b86961b0cc3

Cranberry blues (Agriades optilete) are butterflies of conservation interest worldwide. Less than 20 populations are known in Alberta, Canada, mostly inhabiting boreal forests that are increasingly fragmented by oil sands developments and subject to wildfires. We modeled the abundance of cranberry b...