Species diversity in spatial and temporal dimensions of fruit-feeding butterflies from two Ecuadorian rainforests

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 333-353

  DeVries, Philip J ^a,c   Walla, Thomas R ^a   Greeney, Harold F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation; Edges; Habitat disturbance; Nymphalidae; Rarefaction; Species abundance distributions; Species diversity; Vertical stratification

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; RAINFOREST; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ECUADOR;

ANIMALIA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; NYMPHALIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 0032796739     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.1999.0319     Document Type: Article

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