Temperature, Rainfall and Butterfly Numbers
- 1 December 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of Applied Ecology
- Vol. 25 (3) , 819-828
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2403748
Abstract
(1) Data on changes in numbers of thirty-one species of butterfly in Britain, in 1976-86, were used to investigated associations between relative abundance and weather by standard multiple regression. (2) The most striking association was between increased nubmers and warm, dry summers. There was also a frequent association between wet conditions early in the previous year and increased numbers in the current year. Winter temperature and rainfall showed no strong associations with numbers of butterflies.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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