Habitat associations of species show consistent but weak responses to climate

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 590-593

  Suggitt, Andrew J ^a,b   Stefanescu, Constantí ^c,d   Páramo, Ferran ^c   Oliver, Tom ^b   Anderson, Barbara J ^a   Hill, Jane K ^a   Roy, David B ^b   Brereton, Tom ^e   Thomas, Chris D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c Museu de Ciències Naturals de Granollers Àrea Investigació en Quiròpters   (Spain)

^d CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

^e BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioclimate modelling; Biodiversity; Fine scale

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIOCLIMATOLOGY; BIODIVERSITY; BUTTERFLY; ECTOTHERMY; GLOBAL WARMING; HABITAT TYPE; MICROCLIMATE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; RANGE SIZE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONAL VARIATION; VEGETATION TYPE;

CATALONIA; SPAIN; UNITED KINGDOM;

PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 84864450970     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0112     Document Type: Article

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