Landscape-level phenology of a threatened butterfly: A GIS-based modeling approach

Ecosystems

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 299-309

  Weiss, Stuart B ^a   Weiss, Andrew D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Butterfly; Geographic Information System (GIS); Insect; Insolation; Phenology; Spatially explicit; Topoclimate; Weather

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002715203     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100219900023     Document Type: Article

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