Topographic determinants of faunal nestedness in Great Basin butterfly assemblages: Applications to conservation planning

Conservation Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 422-429

  Fleishman, Erica ^a   Mac Nally, Ralph ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; NESTEDNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS; TOPOGRAPHY;

NORTH AMERICA;

PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 0036222910     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2002.00362.x     Document Type: Article

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