Determinants of species richness in generalist and specialist Mediterranean butterflies: The negative synergistic forces of climate and habitat change

Ecography

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 353-363

  Stefanescu, Constanti ^a   Carnicer, Jofre ^b   Peñuelas, Josep ^c  

^a Butterfl y Monitoring Scheme Museu Granollers Ciències Naturals   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; BUTTERFLY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; GLOBAL WARMING; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT TYPE; POPULATION DECLINE; RAINFALL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 79952126662     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2010.06264.x     Document Type: Article

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