Climatic trends and advancing spring flight of butterflies in lowland California

Global Change Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1130-1135

  Forister, Matthew L ^a   Shapiro, Arthur M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Butterflies; Climate change; Emergence; Overwintering; Phenology

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; CLIMATE CHANGE; EMERGENCE; OVERWINTERING; PHENOLOGY;

UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 0042131661     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2486.2003.00643.x     Document Type: Article

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