The importance of small scales to the fruit-feeding butterfly assemblages in a fragmented landscape

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 811-827

  Ribeiro, Danilo Bandini ^a   Batista, Rômulo ^b   Prado, Paulo I ^c   Brown Jr , Keith S ^a   Freitas, A V L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b Departamento de Pesquisa e Monitoramento Ambiental   (Brazil)

^c SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Atlantic forest; Bioindicators; Brazil; Butterfly conservation; Forest fragmentation; Nymphalidae

Indexed keywords

BIOINDICATOR; BUTTERFLY; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; VEGETATION COVER;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BRAZIL;

BIBLIDINAE; BRASSOLINI; CHARAXINAE; HEXAPODA; NYMPHALIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA; SATYRINI;

EID: 84856960351     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-011-0222-x     Document Type: Article

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