Co-extinctions of tropical butterflies and their hostplants

Biotropica

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 272-274

  Koh, Lian Pin ^a   Sodhi, Navjot S ^a   Brook, Barry W ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coevolution; Conservation; Deforestation; Extinction; Southeast Asia; Specificity; Tropical rain forest

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; COEVOLUTION; DISTURBANCE; EXTINCTION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HOST PLANT; RAINFOREST;

ANIMALIA; LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 2942679815     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2004.tb00319.x     Document Type: Article

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