Types of oreal and oreotundral disjunctions in the western Palearctic

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 415-430

  Varga, Zoltan S ^a   Schmitt, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arctic regions; Biogeography; Butterflies; Chorology; Endemisms; Lepidoptera; Moths; Mountain regions; Phylogeography

Indexed keywords

ANTAGONISM; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BUTTERFLY; CHRONOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENDEMISM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MOTH; MOUNTAIN REGION; PALEARCTIC REGION; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 38049126301     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00934.x     Document Type: Article

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