Munroe revisited: A survey of West Indian butterfly faunas and their species-area relationship

Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 285-294

  Davies, Neil ^a,d   Smith, David Spencer ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Island biogeography; Lepidoptera; South Florida; Species area relationship; Survey efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001043873     PISSN: 09607447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2997602     Document Type: Article

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