Occurrences of forest butterflies in the farm bush savannah outside a forest reserve in Ghana, West Africa

International Journal of Tropical Insect Science

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 141-150

  Elbers, Jean P ^a   Bossart, J L ^b  

^a MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Afrotropics; Forest fragments; Fruit feeding butterflies; Habitat fidelity; Matrix habitat; Nymphalidae; Patchy landscapes

Indexed keywords

NYMPHALIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 74949106091     PISSN: 17427584     EISSN: 17427592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1742758409990233     Document Type: Article

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