Relationships among climate, latitude and migration: Australian butterflies are not temperate-zone birds

Oecologia

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 196-207

  Dingle, Hugh ^a   Rochester, Wayne A ^b   Zalucki, Myron P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Butterfly migration; Climate; Geographical range; Precipitation levels; Species numbers

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; CLIMATE EFFECT; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LATITUDE; MIGRATION;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0033882965     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050007     Document Type: Article

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