The response of two butterfly species to climatic variation at the edge of their range and the implications for poleward range shifts

Oecologia

Volumn 157, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 583-592

  Hellmann, Jessica J ^a   Pelini, Shannon L ^a   Prior, Kirsten M ^a   Dzurisin, Jason D K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Erynnis propertius; Geographic range; Larval production; Lepidoptera

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FITNESS; GENERALIST; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LARVA; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POPULATION DENSITY; RANGE EXPANSION; SPECIALIST; TRANSLOCATION;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; CANADA; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; BRITISH COLUMBIA; BUTTERFLIES; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE;

ERYNNIS; LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIO ZELICAON; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 51749118477     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-008-1112-0     Document Type: Article

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