Citizen Science: The First Peninsular Malaysia Butterfly Count
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Citizen Science: The First Peninsular Malaysia Butterfly Count
BACKGROUND Over the past 50 years, Southeast Asia has suffered the greatest losses of biodiversity of any tropical region in the world. Malaysia is a biodiversity hotspot in the heart of Southeast Asia with roughly the same number of mammal species, three times the number of butterfly species, but only 4% of the land area of Australia. Consequently, in Malaysia, there is an urgent need for biod...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biodiversity Data Journal
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1314-2828,1314-2836
DOI: 10.3897/bdj.3.e7159