Human impacts on environment-diversity relationships: Evidence for biotic homogenization from butterfly species richness patterns

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 290-299

  White, Peter J T ^b   Kerr, Jeremy T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biotic homogenization; Butterflies; Habitat heterogeneity; Macroecology; Species range models; Species richness energy

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOTIC FACTOR; BUTTERFLY; CLIMATE EFFECT; GENETIC ALGORITHM; HABITAT LOSS; HETEROGENEITY; MACROECOLOGY; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 34247149786     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2007.00298.x     Document Type: Article

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