Identifying rarity in insects: The importance of host plant range

Biological Conservation

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 293-307

  Hopkins, G W ^a   Thacker, J I ^b   Dixon, A F G ^a   Waring, P ^c   Telfer, M G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b Windmill View ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c Windmill View   (United Kingdom)

^d CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agromyzids; Aphids; Beetles; Host specificity; Moths; Rare species; Tephritids

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CONSERVATION PLANNING; HOST SPECIFICITY; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; RARITY;

APHIDIDAE; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 0036236642     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(01)00203-8     Document Type: Article

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