Butterfly community ecology: The influences of habitat type, weather patterns, and dominant species in a temperate ecosystem

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 50-61

  Robinson, Natalie ^a   Armstead, Stephen ^a,b   Deane Bowers, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b City of Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance; Drought; Lepidoptera; Long term monitoring; Pieridae; Pieris rapae; Pollard Yates method; Richness; Shannon diversity

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BUTTERFLY; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DIVERSITY INDEX; DROUGHT STRESS; HABITAT TYPE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; WEATHER;

BOULDER; COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA; PIERIDAE; PIERIS RAPAE;

EID: 84865747282     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2012.01308.x     Document Type: Article

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