Gains and losses of French butterflies: Tests of predictions, under-recording and regional extinction from data in a new atlas

Biological Conservation

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 131-139

  Dennis, Roger L H ^a,b   Shreeve, Tim G ^a  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distributions; Lepidoptera; Mapping; Regional extinction; Under recording

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LOCAL EXTINCTION; MAPPING; PREDICTION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

FRANCE;

LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 0037353432     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(02)00184-2     Document Type: Article

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