Climate-driven changes in northeastern US butterfly communities

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 142-145

  Breed, Greg A ^a   Stichter, Sharon ^b   Crone, Elizabeth E ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Butterfly Club   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOCLIMATOLOGY; BUTTERFLY; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; GLOBAL WARMING; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; OVERWINTERING; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION ESTIMATION; RANGE EXPANSION;

MASSACHUSETTS; UNITED STATES;

PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 84873173438     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1663     Document Type: Article

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