CLIMBER: Climatic niche characteristics of the butterflies in Europe.

ABSTRACT: Detailed information on species' ecological niche characteristics that can be related to declines and extinctions is indispensable for a better understanding of the relationship between the occurrence and performance of wild species and their environment and, moreover, for an improved assessment of the impacts of global change. Knowledge on species characteristics such as habitat requirements is already available in the ecological literature for butterflies, but information about their climatic requirements is still lacking. Here we present a unique dataset on the climatic niche characteristics of 397 European butterflies representing 91% of the European species (see Appendix). These characteristics were obtained by combining detailed information on butterfly distributions in Europe (which

SUBMITTER: Schweiger O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3904140 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature