A new Red List of British butterflies

Insect Conservation and Diversity

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 159-172

  Fox, Richard ^a   Warren, Martin S ^a   Brereton, Tom M ^a   Roy, David B ^b   Robinson, Anna ^c  

^a BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c JOINT NATURE CONSERVATION COMMITTEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Butterflies; Conservation; Extinction risk; IUCN Red List; Monitoring; Recording; Threatened species

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960552187     PISSN: 1752458X     EISSN: 17524598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4598.2010.00117.x     Document Type: Article

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