Asymmetric boundary shifts of tropical montane Lepidoptera over four decades of climate warming

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 34-45

  Chen, I Ching ^a   Hill, Jane K ^a   Shiu, Hau Jie ^b   Holloway, Jeremy D ^c   Benedick, Suzan ^d   Chey, Vun Khen ^e   Barlow, Henry S ^f   Thomas, Chris D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF TAINAN   (Taiwan)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH   (Malaysia)

^e FOREST RESEARCH CENTRE   (Malaysia)

^f NONE   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Cloud; Ecological barrier; Endemic species; Geology; Geometridae; Leading edge; Malaysia; Range shift; Trailing edge

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLOUD COVER; ELEVATION; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EXTINCTION; HABITAT USE; MOTH; RANGE EXPANSION; WARMING;

EAST MALAYSIA; MALAYSIA; MOUNT KINABALU; SABAH;

GEOMETRIDAE; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 78650039241     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00594.x     Document Type: Article

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