Species diversity and community structure in neotropical fruit-feeding butterflies

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-15

  Devries, Philip J ^a   Walla, Thomas R ^b  

^a MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM   (United States)

^b and Mass Communication   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation; Long term sampling; Spatial effects; Species abundance distribution; Temporal effects; Tropical butterfly communities; Vertical distribution

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

LEPIDOPTERA; NYMPHALIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 0034803089     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.2001.0571     Document Type: Article

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