Latitudinal gradients in butterfly body sizes: is there a general pattern?

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• Publication year

  1995

• Venue

  Oecologia

• Publication date

  1995-04-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1007/BF00333307PMID 28306804
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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