Butterfly monitoring in Europe: Methods, applications and perspectives

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 17, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 3455-3469

  Van Swaay, Chris A M ^a,b   Nowicki, Piotr ^c   Settele, Josef ^b,d   Van Strien, Arco J ^e  

^a DUTCH BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION   (Netherlands)

^b Butterfly Conservation Europe   (Netherlands)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^d HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^e STATISTICS NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Climate change; Indicators; Nature management; Population trends; Transect counts

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BUTTERFLY; CLIMATE CHANGE; NATURE CONSERVATION; REGIONAL PLANNING; WOODLAND;

PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 56549124052     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-008-9491-4     Document Type: Review

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