Using insect natural history collections to study global change impacts: challenges and opportunities

Canadian butterfly climate debt is significant and correlated with range size

(2018) J. M. M. Lewthwaite et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Genome Sequencing of Museum Specimens Reveals Rapid Changes in the Genetic Composition of Honey Bees in California

(2018) Julie M Cridland et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Decreases in beetle body size linked to climate change and warming temperatures

(2018) Michelle Tseng et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Genomic signals of selection predict climate-driven population declines in a migratory bird

(2018) Rachael A. Bay et al.   SCIENCE

Old Plants, New Tricks: Phenological Research Using Herbarium Specimens

(2017) Charles G. Willis et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A statistical estimator for determining the limits of contemporary and historic phenology

(2017) William D. Pearse et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

The harlequin ladybird, Harmonia axyridis: global perspectives on invasion history and ecology

(2016) Helen E. Roy et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Casting your network wide: a plea to scale-up phenological research

(2016) Stephen J. Thackeray   Biology Letters

Multidimensional biases, gaps and uncertainties in global plant occurrence information

(2016) Carsten Meyer et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Little effect of climate change on body size of herbivorous beetles

(2016) Yuval Baar et al.   Insect Science

Exploring the universal ecological responses to climate change in a univoltine butterfly

(2016) Phillip B. Fenberg et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Natural history collections as windows on evolutionary processes

(2016) Michael W. Holmes et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Phenological sensitivity to climate across taxa and trophic levels

(2016) Stephen J. Thackeray et al.   NATURE

Ecological constraints increase the climatic debt in forests

(2016) Romain Bertrand et al.   Nature Communications

The Tropical Biodiversity Data Gap: Addressing Disparity in Global Monitoring

(2016) Ben Collen et al.   Tropical Conservation Science

Herbarium records are reliable sources of phenological change driven by climate and provide novel insights into species' phenological cueing mechanisms

(2015) Charles C. Davis et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Species traits and climate velocity explain geographic range shifts in an ocean-warming hotspot

(2015) Jennifer M. Sunday et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Flowering time of butterfly nectar food plants is more sensitive to temperature than the timing of butterfly adult flight

(2015) Heather M. Kharouba et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

The role of climate adaptation in colonization success inArabidopsis thaliana

(2015) Jill A. Hamilton et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Elevational differences in developmental plasticity determine phenological responses of grasshoppers to recent climate warming

(2015) Lauren B. Buckley et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Climate change impacts on bumblebees converge across continents

(2015) J. T. Kerr et al.   SCIENCE

California dragonfly and damselfly (Odonata) database: temporal and spatial distribution of species records collected over the past century

(2015) Joan E. Ball-Damerow et al.   ZooKeys

Museum samples reveal rapid evolution by wild honey bees exposed to a novel parasite

(2015) Alexander S. Mikheyev et al.   Nature Communications

Northward range shifts in Korean butterflies

(2014) Tae-Sung Kwon et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Potential Disruption of Pollination in a Sexually Deceptive Orchid by Climatic Change

(2014) Karen M. Robbirt et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Natural history museum collections provide information on phenological change in British butterflies since the late-nineteenth century

(2014) Stephen J. Brooks et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY

Virtual dissections through micro-CT scanning: a method for non-destructive genitalia ‘dissections’ of valuable Lepidoptera material

(2014) THOMAS J. SIMONSEN et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

Climate effects on the flight period of Lycaenid butterflies in Massachusetts

(2013) Caroline A. Polgar et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Predicting the sensitivity of butterfly phenology to temperature over the past century

(2013) Heather M. Kharouba et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Will climate change promote future invasions?

(2013) Celine Bellard et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Range collapse in the Diana fritillary,Speyeria diana(Nymphalidae)

(2013) Carrie N. Wells et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Unlocking the vault: next-generation museum population genomics

(2013) Ke Bi et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Northern range expansion of European populations of the wasp spiderArgiope bruennichiis associated with global warming-correlated genetic admixture and population-specific temperature adaptations

(2013) Henrik Krehenwinkel et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Effects of Global Warming on Predatory Bugs Supported by Data Across Geographic and Seasonal Climatic Gradients

(2013) Tarryn Schuldiner-Harpaz et al.   PLoS One

Genomic Treasure Troves: Complete Genome Sequencing of Herbarium and Insect Museum Specimens

(2013) Martijn Staats et al.   PLoS One

Historical changes in northeastern US bee pollinators related to shared ecological traits

(2013) I. Bartomeus et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Microclimate moderates plant responses to macroclimate warming

(2013) P. De Frenne et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Assessing insect responses to climate change: What are we testing for? Where should we be heading?

(2013) Nigel R. Andrew et al.   PeerJ

Systemic range shift lags among a pollinator species assemblage following rapid climate change1This article is part of a Special Issue entitled “Pollination biology research in Canada: Perspectives on a mutualism at different scales”.

(2012) Felicity E. Bedford et al.   Botany

Biological collections in an ever changing world: Herbaria as tools for biogeographical and environmental studies

(2012) Claude Lavoie   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

More Than Just Records: Analysing Natural History Collections for Biodiversity Planning

(2012) Darren F. Ward   PLoS One

Differences in the climatic debts of birds and butterflies at a continental scale

(2012) Vincent Devictor et al.   Nature Climate Change

Historical distribution of the oak processionary moth Thaumetopoea processionea in Europe suggests recolonization instead of expansion

(2011) Frans Groenen et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST ENTOMOLOGY

Climate Change and Biosphere Response: Unlocking the Collections Vault

(2011) Kenneth G. Johnson et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Do species’ traits predict recent shifts at expanding range edges?

(2011) Amy L. Angert et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Tracking origins of invasive herbivores through herbaria and archival DNA: the case of the horse-chestnut leaf miner

(2011) David C Lees et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Ecological correlates of distribution change and range shift in butterflies

(2011) NIINA MATTILA et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Complex Life Cycles and the Responses of Insects to Climate Change

(2011) Joel G. Kingsolver et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Reconstructing demographic events from population genetic data: the introduction of bumblebees to New Zealand

(2011) G. C. LYE et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Climate-associated phenological advances in bee pollinators and bee-pollinated plants

(2011) I. Bartomeus et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Map of Local Adaptation in Arabidopsis thaliana

(2011) A. Fournier-Level et al.   SCIENCE

Rapid Range Shifts of Species Associated with High Levels of Climate Warming

(2011) I.-C. Chen et al.   SCIENCE

Declining body size: a third universal response to warming?

(2011) Janet L. Gardner et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Natural history collections as sources of long-term datasets

(2011) Adrian M. Lister   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Robust detection of plant species distribution shifts under biased sampling regimes

(2011) Adam Wolf et al.   Ecosphere

Interdisciplinary approaches: towards new statistical methods for phenological studies

(2010) Irene Lena Hudson   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Tell me what you eat and I’ll tell you when you fly: diet can predict phenological changes in response to climate change

(2010) Florian Altermatt   ECOLOGY LETTERS

PERSPECTIVE: Underutilized resources for studying the evolution of invasive species during their introduction, establishment, and lag phases

(2010) Travis D. Marsico et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Interglacial refugia and range shifts of the alpine grasshopper Stenobothrus cotticus (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Gomphocerinae)

(2010) Dirk Berger et al.   ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION

Grasshopper Community Response to Climatic Change: Variation Along an Elevational Gradient

(2010) César R. Nufio et al.   PLoS One

Relative roles of climatic suitability and anthropogenic influence in determining the pattern of spread in a global invader

(2010) N. Roura-Pascual et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Applications and limitations of museum data for conservation and ecology, with particular attention to species distribution models

(2010) Tim Newbold   PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

Distorted Views of Biodiversity: Spatial and Temporal Bias in Species Occurrence Data

(2010) Elizabeth H. Boakes et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Biological collections and ecological/environmental research: a review, some observations and a look to the future

(2009) Graham H. Pyke et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Historically calibrated predictions of butterfly species' range shift using global change as a pseudo-experiment

(2009) Heather M. Kharouba et al.   ECOLOGY

Climatic warming increases voltinism in European butterflies and moths

(2009) F. Altermatt   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Detecting range shifts from historical species occurrences: new perspectives on old data

(2009) Morgan W. Tingley et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Decline of bumble bees (Bombus) in the North American Midwest

(2008) Jennifer C. Grixti et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Ecological effects of invasive alien insects

(2008) Marc Kenis et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Rapid morphological change in stream beetle museum specimens correlates with climate change

(2008) JENNIFER BABIN-FENSKE et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Phenotypic changes and reduced genetic diversity have accompanied the rapid decline of the garden tiger moth (Arctia caja) in the U.K.

(2008) SARAH J. ANDERSON et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

A RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF POLLEN HOST PLANT USE BY STABLE AND DECLINING BUMBLE BEE SPECIES

(2008) David Kleijn et al.   ECOLOGY

Historical bias in biodiversity inventories affects the observed environmental niche of the species

(2008) Joaquín Hortal et al.   OIKOS