Community composition in mountain ecosystems: climatic determinants of montane butterfly distributions

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Montane butterfly densities and species assemblages vary widely over space and through time. This variation is partially driven by variation in weather and climate, at spatial scales ranging from local habitats to regional ecosystems, and over time spans of days to centuries. The authors present case studies that illustrate how climatic variation affects individuals, population densities and species' ranges, and species distribution patterns at the regional level. Present patterns at all scales are neither spatially nor temporally static, even in the absence of directional anthropogenic climate change. The observed patterns allow the authors to sketch the broad outline of expected changes in population densities, species distributions, and butterfly community composition under anthropogenic climate change. They conclude that the fragmented habitats found in mountainous areas will exacerbate the effects of climate change on population densities and species' survival and that relatively sedentary species require closer attention from conservation biologists.

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ELECTRONIC FILE - Zoology: Invertebrates

Note: This issue was a Special Issue. (Mountain Ecology Special Issue appears at the top of this and other articles in this issue. I assume that the special issue could be considered to be for the issue number and not the volume number and will follow that form for CSE style. Wiley and others list the full special issue name after the issue number and not within parentheses.):
Boggs CL, Murphy DD. 1997. Community composition in mountain ecosystems: climatic determinants of montane butterfly distributions. Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters. 6(1 Spec Issue):39-48. Available at: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2997525Accessed: