An empirical test of Rapoport's rule: Elevational gradients in montane butterfly communities

Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 2482-2493

  Fleishman, Erica ^a,c   Austin, George T ^b   Weiss, Andrew D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b Nevada State Museum & Historical Society   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Butterflies; Climate change; Ecosystem management; Elevation; Great Basin; Nestedness; Rapoport's rule

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ELEVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; RAPOPORT RULE;

NEVADA; TOIYABE RANGE; UNITED STATES;

LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 0031665180     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1998)079[2482:AETORS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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