A new method to identify important conservation areas applied to the butterflies of the Aegean Islands (Greece)

Animal Conservation

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 75-83

  Fattorini, Simone ^a,b  

^a Dipartimento Difesa della Natura   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation concern index; Butterflies; Extinction risk; IUCN; Mediterranean; Red lists

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; CONSERVATION; CONSERVATION STATUS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION RISK; PROTECTED AREA;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 33644811279     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: 14691795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1795.2005.00009.x     Document Type: Article

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