Additive partitioning of butterfly diversity in a fragmented landscape: Importance of scale and implications for conservation

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 961-968

  Ribeiro, Danilo Bandini ^a   Prado, Paulo I ^b   Brown Jr , Keith S ^a   Freitas, André V L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Additive partitioning; Atlantic forest; Fruit feeding butterflies; Land use; Landscape structure; Nymphalidae

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIVERSITY INDEX; FRUIT; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BRAZIL; SAO PAULO [BRAZIL]; SOUTH AMERICA;

NYMPHALIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 54049118017     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2008.00505.x     Document Type: Article

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