Compounded effects of climate change and habitat alteration shift patterns of butterfly diversity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2088-2092

  Forister, Matthew L ^a   McCall, Andrew C ^b   Sanders, Nathan J ^c   Fordyce, James A ^c   Thorne, James H ^d   O'Brien, Joshua ^d   Waetjen, David P ^d   Shapiro, Arthur M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b DENISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Elevational gradient; Global change; Lepidoptera; Phenology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BUTTERFLY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LAND USE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES RICHNESS; UNITED STATES;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BUTTERFLIES; CALIFORNIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HUMANS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; MAMMALIA; PAPILIONOIDEA; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 76649098017     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0909686107     Document Type: Article

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