Traits of butterfly communities change from specialist to generalist characteristics with increasing land-use intensity

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 547-554

  Börschig, Carmen ^a   Klein, Alexandra Maria ^b,c   von Wehrden, Henrik ^b,d   Krauss, Jochen ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Development; Dispersal; Distribution; Flight period; Grassland; Life history traits; Population density; Reproduction; Voltinism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885425392     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2013.09.002     Document Type: Article

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