The role of environment and mid-domain effect on moth species richness along a tropical elevational gradient

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 205-219

  Brehm, Gunnar ^a,d   Colwell, Robert K ^b   Kluge, Jürgen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d Institut für Spezielle Zoologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Barva Transect; Costa Rica; Diversity; Geometridae; La Selva; Lepidoptera; MDE; Rain forest; Rapoport's rule

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MOTH; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

BARVA; CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; HEREDIA;

ENNOMINAE; GEOMETRIDAE; LARENTIINAE; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 33847201858     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2006.00281.x     Document Type: Article

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