Butterfly abundance in a warming climate: Patterns in space and time are not congruent

Journal of Insect Conservation

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 233-240

  Isaac, Nick J B ^a   Girardello, Marco ^a   Brereton, Tom M ^b   Roy, David B ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biotic homogenisation; Butterflies; Climate change; Climate envelope; Mixed models; Niche; Space for time substitution; UK butterfly monitoring scheme

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANNUAL VARIATION; BUTTERFLY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EMISSION INVENTORY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WARMING;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

HEXAPODA; MANIOLA JURTINA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 79951556016     PISSN: 1366638X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10841-010-9340-0     Document Type: Article

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