Microclimate variability significantly affects the composition, abundance and phenology of butterfly communities in a highly threatened neotropical dry forest

Florida Entomologist

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-13

  Checa, Maria F ^a,b   Rodriguez, Jacqueline ^b   Willmott, Keith R ^a   Liger, Belen ^b  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bait attracted butterflies; Climate change; Microhabitat; Relative humidity; Temperature; Vegetation structure

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BAIT; BIODIVERSITY; BUTTERFLY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DRY FOREST; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENDEMISM; ENTOMOLOGY; MICROCLIMATE; MICROHABITAT; NEOTROPICAL REGION; PHENOLOGY; SEASONALITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TRAP (EQUIPMENT); UNDERSTORY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ECUADOR;

EID: 84897004351     PISSN: 00154040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1653/024.097.0101     Document Type: Article

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