Does herbivore diversity depend on plant diversity? The case of California butterflies

American Naturalist

Volumn 161, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 40-49

  Hawkins, Bradford A ^a,b   Porter, Eric E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Butterflies; Butterfly species richness; Diversity gradients; Plant species richness; Productivity; Spatial autocorrelation; Topographic variability

Indexed keywords

WATER;

BUTTERFLY; HERBIVORE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; CALIFORNIA; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; LOGISTIC MODELS; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTS; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER;

UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA; PHACELIA CONGESTA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 0037252914     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/345479     Document Type: Article

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