Range sizes in butterflies: Correlation across scales

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 993-1004

  Brändle, Martin ^a   Öhlschläger, Sabine ^a   Brandl, Roland ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Body size; Butterflies; Distribution; Geographical scale; Life history traits; Macroecology; Niche breadth

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041348993     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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