The extinction of experience: A threat to insect conservation?

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 322-348

  Cheesman, Oliver D ^a   Key, Roger S ^b  

^a Natural England ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b NATURAL ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

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