Effect of tree-fall gaps on fruit-feeding nymphalid butterfly assemblages in a Peruvian rain forest

Biotropica

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 612-619

  Pardonnet, Sylvia ^a   Beck, Harald ^b   Milberg, Per ^a   Bergman, Karl Olof ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Gap dynamics; Intermediate disturbances; Lepidoptera; Manu National Park; Neotropics; Vine

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; CANOPY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GAP DYNAMICS; HABITAT SELECTION; HOST PLANT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; UNDERSTORY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; VINE; WING;

AMAZONIA; MANU NATIONAL PARK; PERU;

LEPIDOPTERA; NYMPHALIDAE;

EID: 84883463285     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/btp.12053     Document Type: Article

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