Gains and losses: Extinctions and colonisations in Britain since 1900

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 573-585

  Gurney, Mark ^a  

^a RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colonisation rate; Extinction rate; Range expansion

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; COLONY STRUCTURE; EXTINCTION; INSECT; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NEW SPECIES; RANGE EXPANSION; RESIDENT POPULATION; TAXONOMY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 84931064023     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bij.12503     Document Type: Article

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