Monitoring biodiversity: Measuring long-term changes in insect abundance

Insect Conservation Biology: Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society's 23rd Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 203-225

  Conrad, Kelvin F ^a,b   Fox, Richard ^c   Woiwod, Ian P ^a  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION   (United Kingdom)

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