Effect of habitat loss and fragmentation on fruit-feeding butterflies in the brazilian atlantic forest

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 97, Issue 7, 2019, Pages 588-596

  Melo, D H A ^a   Filgueiras, B K C ^a   Iserhard, C A ^b   Iannuzzi, L ^a   Freitas, A V L ^c   Leal, Inara R ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bioindicators; Conservation; Fruit feeding butterflies; Habitat fragmentation; Nymphalidae; Pernambuco Center of Endemism; Species composition

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; BIODIVERSITY; BIOINDICATOR; BUTTERFLY; FOREST EDGE; FRUGIVORY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT TYPE; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BRAZIL;

NYMPHALIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 85068602183     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: 14803283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/cjz-2018-0202     Document Type: Article

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