Can we predict butterfly diversity along an elevation gradient from space?

Ecography

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 372-383

  Levanoni, Oded ^a   Levin, Noam ^a   Pe'er, Guy ^a,b   Turbé, Anne ^b   Kark, Salit ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BUTTERFLY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CORRELATION; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HETEROGENEITY; NDVI; QUICKBIRD; RANGE EXPANSION; REMOTE SENSING; RESEARCH WORK; RESOLUTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EID: 79957861142     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2010.06460.x     Document Type: Article

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