Narrow-range endemicity and conservation status: Interpretations for Australian butterflies

Invertebrate Systematics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 665-670

  New, T R ^a   Sands, D P A ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; CONSERVATION STATUS; ENDEMISM; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION;

AUSTRALIA;

LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 0036421925     PISSN: 14455226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/IS02002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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