Identifying important areas for butterfly conservation in Italy

Animal Conservation

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 20-28

  Girardello, Marco ^a   Griggio, M ^b   Whittingham, M J ^a   Rushton, S P ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bagging predictors; Butterflies; Italy; Site prioritization; Zonation

Indexed keywords

BIOMONITORING; BUTTERFLY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; LANDSCAPE PROTECTION; MODELING; NICHE; PREDICTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; PUGLIA; SARDINIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 59349110654     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: 14691795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1795.2008.00216.x     Document Type: Article

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