Diversity patterns in butterfly communities of the Greek nature reserve Dadia

Biological Conservation

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 427-436

  Grill, Andrea ^a,b   Cleary, Daniel F R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Balkan endemics; Butterflies; Conservation; Nature reserves; Species diversity; Threatened species

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; NATURE RESERVE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

GREECE;

ACTEON; AVES; LEPIDOPTERA; LYCAENA; LYCAENA OTTOMANUS; PAPILIONOIDEA; PSEUDOPHILOTES VICRAMA; QUERCUS; THYMELICUS; THYMELICUS ACTEON; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0141649236     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(03)00070-3     Document Type: Article

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