Unexpected phenological responses of butterflies to the interaction of urbanization and geographic temperature

Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2613-2621

  Diamond, Sarah E ^a,b,c   Cayton, Heather ^b   Wepprich, Tyson ^b   Jenkins, Clinton N ^a,d   Dunn, Robert R ^b,c   Haddad, Nick M ^b   Ries, Leslie ^e,f  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c W M Keck Center for Behavioral Biology   (United States)

^d Instituto de Pesquisas Ecologicas   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^f Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic change; Citizen science; Global climate change; Impervious surface; Lepidoptera; Nonadditive effects; Phenology; Physiology; Temperature; Trait based modeling

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDINAL ZONATION; BUTTERFLY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; PHENOLOGY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; URBANIZATION;

OHIO; UNITED STATES;

LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 84907211442     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-1848.1     Document Type: Article

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