Monitoring Butterflies for Ecology and Conservation

• Forword; J.A. Thomas. Preface. 1. The current status of British butterflies. 2. Aims and methods of monitoring. 3. Validation of the monitoring method. 4. Sites, site selection and 'national' monitoring. 5. Local distribution of butterflies. 6. Fluctuations in numbers. 7. Colonization and extinction. 8. Effects of wether on numbers. 9. Migration. 10. The flight-periods of butterflies. 11. Widespread butterflies of the countryside. 12. Rare and localized butterflies. 13. Site studies. 14. Population ecology. 15. Climatic warming. 16. Synopsis. Appendix A: Life cycles, food plants and behaviour. Appendix B: Sites and recorders in the Butterfly Monitoring Scheme. Appendix C: latin names of plants mentioned in the text. References. Sit index. Species index. Subject index.

' ... one of the most comprehensive and readable accounts of a survey scheme ever published.' Antenna 'This book is well laid out with clear graphs and tables ... a very well presented examination of current work and a valuable contribution to our developing understanding of this best studied group of insects.' British Journal of Entomology and Natural History