Aspect diversity in moths revisited

American Naturalist

Volumn 173, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 411-416

  Ricklefs, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Apostatic selection; Community assembly; Diversity; Moth

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYPSIS; FITNESS; MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL SELECTION; RECONSTRUCTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; MOTH; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHY; MOTHS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION;

ARIZONA; CENTRAL AMERICA; COLORADO; NORTH AMERICA; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; UNITED STATES;

LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 61849184908     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/596533     Document Type: Article

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