Ecological niches in sequential generations of Eastern North American monarch butterflies (Lepidoptera: Danaidae): The ecology of migration and likely climate change implications

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1365-1373

  Batalden, Rebecca V ^a   Oberhauser, Karen ^a   Peterson, A Townsend ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Ecological niche modeling; Geographic distributions; Monarch butterflies; Seasonal distributions

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; BUTTERFLY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HOME RANGE; MIGRATION; NICHE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; CLIMATE; ECOLOGY; FORECASTING; GEOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; NORTH AMERICA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEASON; TIME;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; CLIMATE; ECOLOGY; FORECASTING; GEOGRAPHY; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS;

NORTH AMERICA;

ASCLEPIAS; DANAINAE; DANAUS PLEXIPPUS; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 40549114579     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X(2007)36[1365:ENISGO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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