Uphill shifts in distribution of butterflies in the Czech Republic: Effects of changing climate detected on a regional scale

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 403-410

  Konvicka, Martin ^a,b   Maradova, Monika ^b   Benes, Jiri ^a   Fric, Zdenek ^a,b   Kepka, Pavel ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Altitudinal gradient; Butterflies; Central Europe; Climate change; Czech Republic; Distribution atlas; Global warming; Mountain habitats

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ALTITUDE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; BUTTERFLY; CLIMATE EFFECT; HABITAT SELECTION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

CZECH REPUBLIC; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE;

LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 0141632991     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1466-822X.2003.00053.x     Document Type: Article

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