Interactions between ecological traits and host plant type explain distribution change in noctuid moths

Conservation Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 703-709

  Mattila, Niina ^a   Kotiaho, Janne S ^a   Kaitala, Veijo ^b   Komonen, Atte ^c   PÄivinen, Jussi ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^d Natural Heritage Services   (Finland)

Author keywords

Distribution change; Ecological traits; Lepidoptera; Noctuidae; Predictive conservation science

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; HOST PLANT; HOST SPECIFICITY; MOTH; OVERWINTERING; POPULATION DECLINE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BOOK; DEMOGRAPHY; FINLAND; LARVA; MOTH; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMBIOSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ATLASES AS TOPIC; BODY SIZE; DEMOGRAPHY; FINLAND; LARVA; MOTHS; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS;

LEPIDOPTERA; NOCTUIDAE;

EID: 65949094375     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.01138.x     Document Type: Article

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