Mate-locating behaviour, habitat-use, and flight morphology relative to rainforest disturbance in an Afrotropical butterfly

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 830-839

  Bonte, Dries ^a,b   Van Dyck, Hans ^c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c EARTH AND LIFE INSTITUTE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cloud forests; Habitat fragmentation; Movement; Plasticity; Resource; Salamis parhassus

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AFROTROPIC ECOZONE; BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; BUTTERFLY; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EVOLUTION; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT USE; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; MATE LOCATION; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY;

PAPILIONOIDEA; SALAMIS;

EID: 63849327983     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01125.x     Document Type: Article

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