Strong recovery of dragonflies in recent decades in The Netherlands

Freshwater Science

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1094-1104

  Termaat, Tim ^a   Van Grunsven, Roy H A ^b   Plate, Calijn L ^c   Van Strien, Arco J ^c  

^a DUTCH BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c STATISTICS NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Abundance trends; Climate change; Conservation; Distribution trends; Dragonflies; Habitat recovery

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOMONITORING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION STATUS; DRAGONFLY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT RESTORATION; HABITAT TYPE; RED LIST; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

NETHERLANDS;

ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); HEXAPODA;

EID: 84953728164     PISSN: 21619549     EISSN: 21619565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/682669     Document Type: Article

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