High Abundances of Species in Protected Areas in Parts of their Geographic Distributions Colonized during a Recent Period of Climatic Change

Conservation Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 97-106

  Gillingham, Phillipa K ^a,b   Alison, Jamie ^b,c   Roy, David B ^d   Fox, Richard ^e   Thomas, Chris D ^b  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^e BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abundance; Butterflies; Conservation; Effectiveness; Odonates; Protected areas; Sites of special scientific interest

Indexed keywords

PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 84934094949     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12118     Document Type: Article

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