Community composition in mountain ecosystems: Climatic determinants of montane butterfly distributions

Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 39-48

  Boggs, Carol L ^a,b   Murphy, Dennis D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental variation; Global climate change; Lepidoptera; Species assemblages; Species ranges

Indexed keywords

LEPIDOPTERA;

BUTTERFLY; INSECT COMMUNITY; MOUNTAIN ECOSYSTEM;

EID: 0031461263     PISSN: 09607447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2997525     Document Type: Article

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