Seasonal cycles of species diversity and similarity in a tropical butterfly community

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 714-723

  Grøtan, Vidar ^a   Lande, Russell ^a,b   Engen, Steinar ^a   Sæther, Bernt Erik ^a   Devries, Phil J ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

Author keywords

Community dynamics; Community similarity; Nymphalid butterflies; Poisson lognormal; Population dynamics; Seasonality; Species abundance distribution; Species diversity; Tropical rainforest

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BUTTERFLY; CLIMATE CHANGE; FRUIT; POISSON RATIO; RAINFOREST; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TIMESCALE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BUTTERFLY; CLASSIFICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BUTTERFLIES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

AMAZONIA; ECUADOR;

NYMPHALIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 84859567972     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01950.x     Document Type: Article

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