What have we learnt from 50 years of biological recording?

British Wildlife

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 97-106

  Preston, Chris D ^a   Roy, David B ^a   Roy, Helen E ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

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