Tropical phenology: Bi-annual rhythms and interannual variation in an Afrotropical butterfly assemblage

Ecosphere

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Valtonen, Anu ^a   Molleman, Freerk ^b   Chapman, Colin A ^c   Carey, James R ^d   Ayres, Matthew P ^e   Roininen, Heikki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Department of Biological Sciences Dartmouth College ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Community; Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI); Greenness; Insect; Lepidoptera; Precipitation; Similarity; Tropical rain forest; Uganda

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896697741     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES12-00338.1     Document Type: Article

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