Movement and vertical stratification of fruit-feeding butterflies in a managed West African rainforest

Journal of Insect Conservation

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 7-19

  Fermon, Heleen ^a   Waltert, M ^a   Muhlenberg M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Forest management; Movement; Thinning; Tropical butterflies; Vertical stratification

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; MOVEMENT; RAINFOREST; THINNING; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

AFRICA;

LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 0043241778     PISSN: 1366638X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024755819790     Document Type: Article

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