Climate change versus ecological drift: Assessing 13 years of turnover in a butterfly community

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 283-290

  Sgardeli, Vasiliki ^a   Zografou, Konstantina ^a   Halley, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dadia National Park; Ecological drift; Neutral model; Null model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84956608954     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2015.12.008     Document Type: Article

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