Applying IUCN Red List criteria at a small regional level: A test case with butterflies in Flanders (north Belgium)

Biological Conservation

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 258-266

  Maes, Dirk ^a   Vanreusel, Wouter ^b   Jacobs, Ilf ^b   Berwaerts, Koen ^c   Van Dyck, Hans ^d  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

^b Natuurpunt   (Belgium)

^c Vlinderwerkgroep Natuurpunt   (Belgium)

^d EARTH AND LIFE INSTITUTE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Distribution; Extinction; Hotspots; Population trend; Threatened species

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION RISK; HOT SPOT; RED LIST; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

BELGIUM; FLANDERS;

PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 84856212515     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.11.021     Document Type: Article

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