Flight areas of British and butterflies: Assessing species status and decline

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1428, 1999, Pages 1587-1592

  Cowley, M J R ^a   Thomas, C D ^a   Thomas, J A ^b   Warren, M S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conservation; Extinction; IUCN; Range size

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; POPULATION DECLINE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; FLIGHT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

UNITED KINGDOM;

INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 0033533124     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0819     Document Type: Article

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