Life history traits, but not phylogeny, drive compositional patterns in a butterfly metacommunity

Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3304-3313

  Pavoine, Sandrine ^a,b   Baguette, Michel ^c,d   Stevens, Virginie M ^c   Leibold, Mathew A ^e   Turlure, Camille ^f   Bonsall, Michael B ^b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Assembly rules; Butterflies; Community assembly; Community phylogenetics; European chalk grassland; Fragmentation; Functional diversity; Habitat filters; Phylogenetic diversity; Phylogenetic signal

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY RULE; BUTTERFLY; GRASSLAND; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; META-ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; STOCHASTICITY;

PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 84920018503     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-2036.1     Document Type: Article

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