Two high-mountain burnet moth species (Lepidoptera, Zygaenidae) react differently to the global change drivers climate and land-use

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2810-2818

  Dieker, Petra ^a,b   Drees, Claudia ^c,d   Assmann, Thorsten ^d  

^a National Museum of Natural History   (Luxembourg)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Altitudinal range shifts; Climate change; Grazing intensities; Pyrenees; Zygaena anthyllidis; Zygaena exulans

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ALTITUDINAL ZONATION; ATLAS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; GLOBAL CHANGE; GRAZING PRESSURE; HABITAT CONSERVATION; LAND USE CHANGE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MOTH; MOUNTAIN REGION; MUSEUM; RANGE EXPANSION; SURVIVAL;

PYRENEES;

EID: 83455195245     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.07.018     Document Type: Article

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