A Cornwall Butterfly Atlas
Author: J. S. Wacher
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9781874357230
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: J. S. Wacher
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9781874357230
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Sarah Board
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781913994013
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jim Asher
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 9780198505655
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This full-colour, superbly illustrated atlas presents the findings of Butterflies for the New Millennium, the most comprehensive survey of butterflies ever undertaken in Britain and Ireland. After five years of recording by thousands of volunteers, it provides an up-to-date assessment of our butterflies, the habitats they live in, the threats they face, and the major changes that have occurred since publication of the previous such atlas in 1984. The body of the book is taken up with species by species accounts, each accompanied by a full-page distribution map and colour photographs of the butterfly concerned. A wider context is provided by considering long-term trends in distribution, derived from 200 years of recording and recent changes elsewhere in Europe. In addition, the book summarises the wealth of new information about butterfly ecology, incorporates findings from the Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, describes and illustrates the habitats favoured by particular communities of butterflies, and presents a vision of how these popular insects might be conserved in the future. As such, it will be invaluable to a wide range of readers, from amateur naturalists to professional conservationists and policy makers.
Author: Roger L H Dennis
Publisher: CABI
Published: 2018-07-13
Total Pages: 405
ISBN-13: 1786395061
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Jane E. O'Donnell
Publisher: State Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780942081169
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jeremy Thomas
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This completely revised edition of 'Butterflies of Britain & Ireland' includes substantially revised species accounts, all including the latest information and research.
Author: Jon Mercer
Publisher: Atropos Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780955108624
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book provides details of the latest butterfly survey of theScottish Borders. Distribution maps, flight periods and colourphotographs accompany all the regular breeding species, withaccounts for migrants and former residents.
Author: Sorby Natural History Society
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 56
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Howard Mendel
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780950815411
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Matthew Oates
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-06-11
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 1472950135
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A witty and informative account that busts the myths about Britain's most captivating butterfly species. When summer is at its zenith and the sallow foliage develops a bluish tinge, a giant butterfly – beautiful, bold and brazen – flies powerfully over the tree canopy. Females of this species, wary yet determined, haunt the sallow thickets, depositing their eggs, while the males establish treetop territories and descend to the woodland floor in search of indelicacies to feed upon. Mysterious, elusive and enthralling in equal measure, this is the butterfly that Victorian collectors yearned for above all others: His Imperial Majesty, the Purple Emperor. A wondrous enigma, the Purple Emperor is our most elusive and least-known butterfly – we glimpse it only through fissures in its treetop world, yet this giant insect has fascinated us for centuries and has even inspired its own 'Emperoring' language. Matthew Oates became captivated by the Purple Emperor following his first sighting as a boy. He has studied it assiduously ever since, devoting his life to trying to unravel the Emperor's secrets. His Imperial Majesty takes us on a journey, beginning with a dalliance into the bizarre history of our engagement with the butterfly, with daring doings and gross eccentricities from the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Subsequent chapters explore all aspects of this remarkable butterfly's life cycle, including behaviour, habitat preferences, life history and conservation, all relayed in Matthew's unique, informative and witty style. Not so long ago, our knowledge of the Emperor was largely based on a blend of mythology and assumption. This book dispels the fabrications and reveals all about the Purple Emperor – the king of British butterflies.