Signals of climate change in butterfly communities in a mediterranean protected area

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Zografou, Konstantina ^a   Kati, Vassiliki ^b   Grill, Andrea ^c,d   Wilson, Robert J ^e   Tzirkalli, Elli ^a   Pamperis, Lazaros N ^f   Halley, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^f NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APORIA CRATAEGI; ARETHUSANA ARETHUSA; ARGYNNIS PAPHIA; ARICIA AGESTIS; ARTICLE; BRENTHIS DAPHNE; BRINTESIA CIRCE; BUTTERFLY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COENONYMPHA PAMPHILUS; COLIAS CROCEA; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; FAUNA; GREECE; HIPPARCHIA FAGI; ISSORIA LATHONIA; KIRINIA ROXELANA; MANIOLA JURTINA; MELITAEA DIDYMA; MELITAEA TRIVIA; NONHUMAN; PIERIS MANNII; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POLYOMMATUS ICARUS; SATYRIUM ILICIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; THYMELICUS SYLVESTRIS; VANESSA CARDUI;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BUTTERFLIES; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; GREECE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84900310673     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087245     Document Type: Article

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