Temporal diversity patterns and phenology in fruit-feeding butterflies in the atlantic forest

Biotropica

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 710-716

  Ribeiro, Danilo Bandini ^a   Prado, Paulo I ^b   Brown Jr , Keith S ^a   Freitas, André V L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Additive partitioning; Fragmentation; Nymphalidae; Seasonality; Temporal variation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOME; BUTTERFLY; DIVERSITY INDEX; ENDEMISM; FRUIT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; PHENOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SAMPLING; SEASONALITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ATLANTIC FOREST;

BIBLIDINAE; MORPHINAE; NYMPHALIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA; SATYRINAE;

EID: 78149233493     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2010.00648.x     Document Type: Article

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