The Presence-Absence Situation and Its Impact on the Assemblage Structure and Interspecific Relations of Pronophilina Butterflies in the Venezuelan Andes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

Neotropical Entomology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 186-195

  Pyrcz, Tomasz W ^a   Garlacz, R ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Altitudinal gradients; Cordillera de Merida; niche partitioning; parapatric distribution; signal jamming; spatial interference

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; VENEZUELA;

ALTITUDE; ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; FEMALE; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; VENEZUELA;

CORADES; LEPIDOPTERA; LYMANOPODA; NYMPHALIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA; PEDALIODES; PRONOPHILINA; PYRCZ;

EID: 84863480419     PISSN: 1519566X     EISSN: 16788052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13744-012-0031-2     Document Type: Article

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