Body size and feeding specificity: Macrolepidoptera in Britain

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 121-139

  Loder, Natasha ^a,b,d   Gaston, Kevin J ^b   Warren, Philip H ^b   Arnold, Henry R ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Endophagy; Environmental variability; Geographic range size herbivory; Host quality; Host specificity; Latitude; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; FEEDING; HOST SPECIFICTY; MOTH;

UK;

LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 0031907017     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.1997.0192     Document Type: Article

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