Predicting responses to climate change: The effect of altitude and latitude on the phenology of the Spittlebug Neophilaenus lineatus

Functional Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1999, Pages 65-73

  Fielding, C A ^a   Whittaker, J B ^a   Butterfield, J E L ^b   Coulson, J C ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diapause; Homoptera; Insect development; Life cycle; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; INSECT; LATITUDE; LIFE CYCLE; PHENOLOGY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

CERCOPIDAE; HOMOPTERA; NEOPHILAENUS LINEATUS;

EID: 0032809323     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.1999.00009.x     Document Type: Article

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