Phylogenetic diversity of geometrid moths decreases with elevation in the tropical Andes

Ecography

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1247-1253

  Brehm, Gunnar ^a   Strutzenberger, Patrick ^b   Fiedler, Konrad ^c  

^a Inst für Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie mit Phyletischem Museum   (Germany)

^b SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; DNA; HOST PLANT; MOTH; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE;

ANDES; ECUADOR; PODOCARPUS NATIONAL PARK;

EID: 84886783062     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2013.00030.x     Document Type: Article

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