Tell me what you eat and I'll tell you when you fly: Diet can predict phenological changes in response to climate change

Ecology Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1475-1484

  Altermatt, Florian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Butterfly; Climate change; Flight period; Generation; Lepidoptera; Moth; Phenology; Species traits; Voltinism

Indexed keywords

LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 78649603630     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01534.x     Document Type: Article

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