Diversity and ecology of carrion- and fruit-feeding butterflies in Bornean rain forest

Journal of Tropical Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 25-33

  Hamer, K C ^a   Hill, J K ^b   Benedick, S ^c,d   Mustaffa, N ^c,d   Chey, V K ^e   Maryati, M ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH   (Malaysia)

^d FOREST RESEARCH CENTRE   (Malaysia)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Diversity partitioning; Flight morphology; Lepidoptera; Mud puddling; Tropical forest insects

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; CARRION; FEEDING ECOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ASIA; EAST MALAYSIA; EURASIA; MALAYSIA; SABAH; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

CHARAXINAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; NYMPHALINAE; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 29344466021     PISSN: 02664674     EISSN: 14697831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266467405002750     Document Type: Article

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