Vertical and horizontal habitats of fruit-feeding butterflies (Lepidoptera) on Siberut, Mentawai Islands, Indonesia

Ecotropica

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 79-90

  Luk, Chung Lim ^a   Hadi, Upik Kesumawati ^b   Ziegler, Thomas ^c   Waltert, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b BOGOR AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^c GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Density compensation; Diversity; Island ecology; Land use; Nymphalidae; Tropical rainfirest

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857823730     PISSN: 09493026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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