With that diet, you will go far: Trait-based analysis reveals a link between rapid range expansion and a nitrogen-favoured diet

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1750, 2013, Pages

  Betzholtz, Per Eric ^a   Pettersson, Lars B ^b   Ryrholm, Nils ^c   Franzén, Markus ^d  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÄVLE   (Sweden)

^d HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Butterfly; Climate change; Habitat availability; Moth; Species trait; Sweden

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIET; GENERALIST; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL CHANGE; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MOTH; MUSEUM; NEW RECORD; NITROGEN; RANGE EXPANSION; SPECIES INVENTORY; TAXONOMY;

SWEDEN;

EID: 84869829545     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2305     Document Type: Article

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