The effect of reduced-impact logging on fruit-feeding butterflies in Central Amazon, Brazil

Journal of Insect Conservation

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 733-744

  Ribeiro, Danilo B ^a   Freitas, André V L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Canopy; Ecological indicators; Forest degradation; Nymphalidae; Tropical; Understory

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FOREST CANOPY; LOGGING (TIMBER); SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPICAL FOREST; UNDERSTORY;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL;

INVERTEBRATA; NYMPHALIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 84866439849     PISSN: 1366638X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10841-012-9458-3     Document Type: Article

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