The impact of climatic change on butterfly geography: Does climatic change produce coincident trends in populations, distributions and ranges?

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 855-876

  Hardy, Peter B ^a   Sparks, Tim H ^b,c,d,e   Dennis, Roger L H ^a,f,g  

^a Fachgebiet für Ökoklimatologie Technische Universität München ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c POZNA UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

^f OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Altitude; Climatic change; Distributions; Latitude; Population abundance; Ranges

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALTITUDE; ATLAS; BIOTOPE; BUTTERFLY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION; LAND USE CHANGE; LATITUDE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

LASIOMMATA MEGERA;

EID: 84895833160     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-014-0637-2     Document Type: Article

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