Diversity and ecology of carrion and fruit-feeding butterflies in Bornean rain forest

• Main Authors: K. C. Hamer, J. K. Hill, Suzan Benedick, Nazirah Mustaffa, V. K. Chey, Maryati Mohamed
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2005
• Subjects: QH540-549.5 Ecology; QL461-599.82 Insects
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/30950/1/Diversity%20and%20ecology%20of%20carrion%20and%20fruit-feeding%20butterflies%20in%20Bornean%20rainforest-ABSTRACT.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/30950/; https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-tropical-ecology/article/abs/diversity-and-ecology-of-carrion-and-fruitfeeding-butterflies-in-bornean-rain-forest/23A86CB5F7302E3021B9BCB8100125C5; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467405002750
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sabah

Tropical rain forests are well known as centres of insect diversity and much effort has focused on the role of larval host plant specificity in generating and maintaining this diversity, but fewer studies have examined the exploitation of different food resources by adults in this context. Tropical...