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SUBMITTER: Menendez R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1560312 | biostudies-other | 2006 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20060601 1593
Species-energy theory indicates that recent climate warming should have driven increases in species richness in cool and species-poor parts of the Northern Hemisphere. We confirm that the average species richness of British butterflies has increased since 1970-82, but much more slowly than predicted from changes of climate: on average, only one-third of the predicted increase has taken place. The resultant species assemblages are increasingly dominated by generalist species that were able to res ...[more]