A Resource-Based Habitat View for Conservation: Butterflies in the British Landscape
Useful Links
British Geological Survey
(Geological source material)
Biological Records Centre
(List of alien species, animals and plants in UK)
Butterfly Conservation
(Butterfly Conservation, Manor Yard, East Lulworth, Wareham, Dorset BH20 5QP, UK. Email: )
(A red list report produced by Butterfly Conservation for the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)
(All ‘priority’ butterfly species have a Species Action Plan)
Countryside Council for Wales
(Countryside Council for Wales, Bangor; Distribution of vegetation units on the Great Ormes Head, North Wales)
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
(Website for CORINE land class and other land use data)
(Land cover maps of Great Britain(LCMGB) have been produced for 1990 and 2000 by the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH); the map for 2000 also covers Northern Ireland (Land Cover Map 2000 (LCM2000))
Chester County Council
(Cheshire, UK, ECOnet project)
Cheshire Region Biodiversity Partnership
(Biodiversity and land management in the county of Cheshire, UK)
Countryside Information System
(Information on a variety of land uses and soils is held by the Countryside Information System)
Cranfield University
(Classification and mapping of soils in mainland Britain,carried out by the Soil Survey and Land Research Centre at Cranfield University (SSLRC), England and Wales; see also
English Heritage
(English Heritage; ancient monument legislation for England; Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979; see also
Natural England
(Quality of life targets for UK; incorporating habitat banking and green space initiatives)
English Partnerships
(Website illustrating development of Milton Keynes New Town, UK)
Shane Farrell’s photostream
(Shane Farrell’s website of British insect photographs)
Peter Hardy’s Butterfly Studies
(butterfly host plant and nectar plant active database)
Great Fen Project
(Great Fen Project; the Wildlife Trusts for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and Peterborough; project partners are the Environment Agency, Huntingdonshire District Council, Natural England and the Middle Level Commissioners)
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources Red List of Threatened Species
(Classification of ranges by extent of occurrence and area of occupancy; see International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources(IUCN) assessment criteria)
Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)
(Field manual for the Joint Nature Conservancy Council, Handbook for Phase 1Habitat Survey; also European Nature Information System (EUNIS) habitat classification, a pan-European system, which was developed between 1996 and 2001 by the EEA in collaboration with experts from throughout Europe. It covers all types of natural and artificial habitats, both aquatic and terrestrial)
Macaulay Land Use Research Institute (MLURI)
(Macaulay Land Use Research Institute (MLURI) for the Scottishoffice; includes soil classification for Scotland)
(Natural areas map of England for 2008 with the key to the areas; also see for names)
DesktopGarp
(Computer programme of techniques that allow the determination of incidence and abundance for species over whole areas from sample data, called desktop GARP)
Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979
(Ancient Monument legislation)
Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS)
Staffordshire University
(Website includes a copy of Peter Hardy’s records for butterfly host plants and nectar sources)
Teagasc
(Soil survey for Ireland, Teagasc (Johnstown Castle Research Centre, Wexford)
UK Biodiversity Action Plan
(Website for UK Biodiversity Action Plans in UK)
UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme
UK Butterflies
(Peter Eeles’s website of butterfly photographs)
Wexford Naturalists Field Club
(Natural history website in Ireland)