Author: Kenneth G. V. Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A Bibliography of the Entomology of the Smaller British Offshore Islands
Author: Kenneth G. V. Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
British and Irish Butterflies
Author: Roger L H Dennis
Publisher: CABI
ISBN: 1786395061
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
Islands are special places; they can be havens for unique plants and animals and refuges for wildlife. This book investigates the biogeography of butterfly species over the British islands, particularly the factors that influence their presence on the islands and that have made each island's butterfly fauna distinctive. The book contains a full log of records of species on the islands and much supporting information. The first three chapters set the scene, illustrating the basics of island biogeography theory, their changing circumstances during the current Holocene interglacial, and studies of natural history of British butterflies that mark the islands as the most intensively studied region for wildlife in the world. The book advances by increasing resolution downscale from a European continental perspective, through patterns and changes on the British mainland, a comparison of the two dominant islands of Britain and Ireland, to a close inspection of the dynamics of species on the multitude of offshore islands. Detailed investigations include contrasts in species' richness on the islands and then of the incidences of each species. Case studies highlight the continual turnover of species on islands. Attention is then given to evolutionary changes since the time that glaciers enveloped Europe. A powerful message is conveyed for the maintenance of butterfly species on the smaller British islands now experiencing population losses at a rate unprecedented since the spread of the last ice sheets: the incontrovertible importance of maintaining populations of species on nearby mainland sources for islands as pools for future migrants.
Publisher: CABI
ISBN: 1786395061
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
Islands are special places; they can be havens for unique plants and animals and refuges for wildlife. This book investigates the biogeography of butterfly species over the British islands, particularly the factors that influence their presence on the islands and that have made each island's butterfly fauna distinctive. The book contains a full log of records of species on the islands and much supporting information. The first three chapters set the scene, illustrating the basics of island biogeography theory, their changing circumstances during the current Holocene interglacial, and studies of natural history of British butterflies that mark the islands as the most intensively studied region for wildlife in the world. The book advances by increasing resolution downscale from a European continental perspective, through patterns and changes on the British mainland, a comparison of the two dominant islands of Britain and Ireland, to a close inspection of the dynamics of species on the multitude of offshore islands. Detailed investigations include contrasts in species' richness on the islands and then of the incidences of each species. Case studies highlight the continual turnover of species on islands. Attention is then given to evolutionary changes since the time that glaciers enveloped Europe. A powerful message is conveyed for the maintenance of butterfly species on the smaller British islands now experiencing population losses at a rate unprecedented since the spread of the last ice sheets: the incontrovertible importance of maintaining populations of species on nearby mainland sources for islands as pools for future migrants.
Identifying British Insects and Arachnids
Author: Peter Charles Barnard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521632416
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Essential guide to the specialist literature for the identification of British insects and arachnids.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521632416
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Essential guide to the specialist literature for the identification of British insects and arachnids.
Entomologist's Gazette
The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation
Author: James William Tutt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Entomology
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Entomology
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Butterflies on British and Irish Offshore Islands
Author: R. L. H. Dennis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Butterflies
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Butterflies
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
British Journal of Entomology and Natural History
Proceedings and Transactions of the British Entomological and Natural History Society
Author: British Entomological and Natural History Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Entomology
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Entomology
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
The History of Natural History
Author: Gavin D. R. Bridson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
Book Description
Local Lists of Lepidoptera
Author: J. M. Chalmers-Hunt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Butterflies
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Butterflies
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description