Do body size and diet breadth affect partitioning of species diversity? A test with forest Lepidoptera

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 91-99

  Summerville, Keith S ^a   Wilson, Tiffany D ^a   Veech, Joseph A ^b   Crist, Thomas O ^c  

^a DRAKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO   (United States)

^c MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

diversity; Additive diversity partition; Macroecology; Moths; Regional diversity; Species composition

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; DIET; MOTH; NICHE BREADTH; NICHE PARTITIONING; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 33645017938     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1366-9516.2006.00206.x     Document Type: Article

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