Environmental determinants of geographic butterfly richness pattern in eastern China

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1453-1467

  Chen, Shengbin ^a   Mao, Lingfeng ^b   Zhang, Jinlong ^c   Zhou, Kexin ^a   Gao, Jixi ^a  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Butterfly fauna; Energy; Heterogeneity; Seasonality; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION; BUTTERFLY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HETEROGENEITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONALITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CHINA;

PAPILIONOIDEA; SPERMATOPHYTA;

EID: 84900022188     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-014-0676-8     Document Type: Article

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