Species richness, composition and abundance of fruit-feeding butterflies in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest: Comparison between a fragmented and a continuous landscape

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 43-54

  Uehara Prado, Marcio ^a,b   Brown Jr , Keith Spalding ^a   Freitas, André Victor Lucci ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b Programa de Pos Graduacao em Ecologia   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Atlantic Forest; Bioindicators; Conservation; Frugivorous butterflies; Habitat fragmentation; Nymphalidae; Species composition

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOINDICATOR; BUTTERFLY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FEEDING; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

BRAZIL; SAO PAULO [BRAZIL]; SOUTH AMERICA;

NYMPHALIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA; SACCHARUM;

EID: 33845678172     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2006.00267.x     Document Type: Article

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