Implications of a temperature increase for host plant range: Predictions for a butterfly

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 3021-3029

  Audusseau, Hélène ^a   Nylin, Sören ^a   Janz, Niklas ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Host plant range; Insect plant interactions; Seasonality; Specialization; Voltinism shift

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886998680     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.696     Document Type: Article

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