Butterfly habitat association traits

These data are from a thesis chapter to be submitted for publication. They are habitat association traits of all British resident butterfly species. In context, they are used to analyse the relationships between the butterflies that are found in urban areas. The chapter itself uses these data for further analysis to produce a more accurate suite of urban associated butterflies, but these data are the baseline. These traits are extracted from the following books:

Asher, J. et al. (2001) The Millennium Atlas of Butterflies in Britain and Ireland. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Fox, R. et al. (2006) The state of butterflies in Britain and Ireland. NatureBureau.

Newland, D. et al. (2020) Britain’s Butterflies. Fourth. Oxford: Princeton University Press.

Thomas, J. and Lewington, R. (2016) The Butterflies of Britain and Ireland. Revised Ed. London: Bloomsbury.

Oates, M. (2020) His Imperial Majesty: A natural history of the Purple Emperor. London: Bloomsbury Wildlife.