Distribution Atlas of Butterflies in Europe
Distribution Atlas of Butterflies in Europe
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欧洲蝴蝶分布图
DOI：
10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00812.x
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
M. Scoble
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作者：
M. Scoble
这本书是一项持续使命的产物。它的驱动力是鳞翅目昆虫Otakar Kudrna，他在1996年计划了一个被称为绘制欧洲蝴蝶地图(MEB)的项目。其成果是在2002年出版了MEB-1，这是一份印刷的蝴蝶分布图图集。MEB-1被认为是分类学和动物地理学信息的来源，但欧洲蝴蝶的减少导致库德纳博士将该项目的根本目的改变为保护，他指出，这需要全面的分布图。目前的卷，MEB-2，是MEB-1的完全修订和重写版本。这本书的大部分内容都是由欧洲441种蝴蝶的每一种的注释分布图组成的，每个物种一页。地图前面有一些介绍性文本，介绍了MEB的背景和使用的方法。在最后几页有一个结束性讨论。受到MEB-1成功的鼓舞，库德纳与MEB-2的一些密切合作者合作，共同撰写了这本书，所有这些都具有特殊和适当的技能。加入这个核心团队的是一个出色的数据贡献者网络，他们提供了65,000条记录，这些记录填充了计算机生成地图所依据的数据库。除了协调和质量控制记录的努力外，还需要做大量工作来使数据标准化。一项特别棘手的任务是从现有的纸质地图中导入有价值的分发数据。这些地图按属和种的字母顺序排列。它们提供了每个物种在三个时期的色点分布模式：1950年及之前；1951年至1980年；以及1981年以后。(像我一样是红绿盲人的人将很难区分红色和绿色的圆点。)每张地图最多有三个段落作为图例进行注释。《动物地理学》简单地描述了该物种的世界范围，并简短地描述了其区系元素(如北冰洋、大洋洲、欧洲-东方)。
This book is the product of an ongoing mission. Its driving force is the lepidopterist Otakar Kudrna, who in 1996 planned a project known as Mapping European Butterflies (MEB). The outcome was the publication, in 2002, of MEB-1, a printed atlas of butterfly distribution maps. MEB-1 was conceived as a source of taxonomic and zoogeographic information, but the decline of European butterflies caused Dr Kudrna to change the underlying purpose of the project to that of conservation which, he noted, needed comprehensive distribution maps.The present volume, MEB-2, is a fully revised and rewritten version of MEB-1. Most of the book is composed of annotated distribution maps of each of the 441 species of European butterflies, one page per species. The maps are preceded by some introductory text describing the background to MEB and the methodology used. There is a concluding discussion in the final pages. Encouraged by the success of MEB-1, Kudrna worked with some close collaborators for MEB-2 to co-author this book, all with particular and appropriate skills. Added to this core team was a remarkable network of data contributors, who provided the 65,000 records that populate the database from which the computer-generated maps were generated. Quite apart from the effort of coordinating and quality controlling the records, much work was needed to standardise the data. A particularly tricky task was to import valuable distribution data from existing paper-based maps. The maps are arranged in alphabetical order by genus and species. They provide colour-dot distribution patterns for each species for three periods: 1950 and before; 1951–1980; and 1981 onwards.(Those in the population who, like me, are red-green colour blind will struggle to distinguish the red from green dots.) Each map is annotated with up to three paragraphs presented as a legend.‘Zoogeography’offers a simple statement of the World range of the species with a short statement of its Faunal Element (eg Boreal, Cosmopolitan, Euro-Oriental).‘Conservation’