Water-energy balance and the geographic pattern of species richness of western Palearctic butterflies

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 678-686

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Actual evapotranspiration; Butterflies; Diversity gradients; Energy hypothesis; Habitat heterogeneity; Land cover; Productivity; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; ENERGY BALANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LAND COVER; PALEARCTIC REGION; SPECIES RICHNESS; WATER BUDGET;

INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 0346306012     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2003.00551.x     Document Type: Article

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