Butterfly distribution along altitudinal gradients: temporal changes over a short time period

A review and meta-analysis of the effects of climate change on Holarctic mountain and upland bird populations

(2018) Davide Scridel et al.   IBIS

Can the effect of species ecological traits on birds' altitudinal changes differ between geographic areas?

(2018) Emanuel Rocchia et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The “mountain effect” in the abandonment of grasslands: Insights from the French Southern Alps

(2016) Leonith Hinojosa et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Climate change versus ecological drift: Assessing 13 years of turnover in a butterfly community

(2016) Vasiliki Sgardeli et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Butterfly community shifts over two centuries

(2016) Jan Christian Habel et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Regional variation in climate change winners and losers highlights the rapid loss of cold-dwelling species

(2016) Catherine M. Tayleur et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Direct and indirect effects of weather variability in a specialist butterfly

(2016) CRISTIANA CERRATO et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Has the currently warming climate affected populations of the mountain ringlet butterfly, Erebia epiphron (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), in low-elevation mountains?

(2016) Martin KONVICKA et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY

Climate change and its impact on epigean and hypogean carabid beetles

(2016) Pietro Brandmayr   PERIODICUM BIOLOGORUM

Has the currently warming climate affected populations of the mountain ringlet butterfly, Erebia epiphron (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), in low-elevation mountains?

(2016) Martin KONVICKA et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY

Ecological specialization matters: long-term trends in butterfly species richness and assemblage composition depend on multiple functional traits

(2015) Anne Eskildsen et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Long series of Swiss seasonal precipitation: regionalization, trends and influence of large-scale flow

(2015) Simon C. Scherrer et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Effects of climate change on the distribution of ecologically interacting species: butterflies and their main food plants in Spain

(2014) H. Romo et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Ecological and life-history traits explain recent boundary shifts in elevation and latitude of western North American songbirds

(2014) Sonya K. Auer et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Better up, worse down: bidirectional consequences of three decades of climate change on a relict population of Erebia cassioides

(2014) Stefano Scalercio et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Thermoregulation and microhabitat use in mountain butterflies of the genus Erebia: Importance of fine-scale habitat heterogeneity

(2014) Irena Kleckova et al.   JOURNAL OF THERMAL BIOLOGY

Signals of Climate Change in Butterfly Communities in a Mediterranean Protected Area

(2014) Konstantina Zografou et al.   PLoS One

Plants, Birds and Butterflies: Short-Term Responses of Species Communities to Climate Warming Vary by Taxon and with Altitude

(2014) Tobias Roth et al.   PLoS One

Statistical methods for temporal and space-time analysis of community composition data

(2014) P. Legendre et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Temperature changes in the North-Western Italian Alps from 1961 to 2010

(2014) Fiorella Acquaotta et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY

Interactions between climate change and land use change on biodiversity: attribution problems, risks, and opportunities

(2014) Tom H. Oliver et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change

Changes in ground beetle assemblages above and below the treeline of the Dolomites after almost 30 years (1980/2009)

(2014) Roberto Pizzolotto et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Surface Temperatures at the Continental Scale: Tracking Changes with Remote Sensing at Unprecedented Detail

(2014) Markus Metz et al.   Remote Sensing

Assessing the sensitivity of alpine birds to potential future changes in habitat and climate to inform management strategies

(2013) Dan E. Chamberlain et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Patterns of biodiversity in the northwestern Italian Alps: a multi-taxa approach

(2013) R. Viterbi et al.   COMMUNITY ECOLOGY

Climate change impacts on biodiversity in Switzerland: A review

(2013) Pascal Vittoz et al.   JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION

Functional and Phylogenetic Approaches to Forecasting Species' Responses to Climate Change

(2012) Lauren B. Buckley et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Phylogenetic alpha and beta diversities of butterfly communities correlate with climate in the western Swiss Alps

(2012) Loïc Pellissier et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Recent Plant Diversity Changes on Europe's Mountain Summits

(2012) H. Pauli et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2012) Vincent Devictor et al.   Nature Climate Change

Spread of common species results in local-scale floristic homogenization in grassland of Switzerland

(2011) Christoph Bühler et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

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

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

Interactions between climate and habitat loss effects on biodiversity: a systematic review and meta-analysis

(2011) Chrystal S. Mantyka-pringle et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Population extinctions in the Italian diurnal lepidoptera: an analysis of possible causes

(2011) Simona Bonelli et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

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

(2011) I.-C. Chen et al.   SCIENCE

Just passing through: Global change and the conservation of biodiversity in protected areas

(2010) Heather M. Kharouba et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Determinants of species richness in generalist and specialist Mediterranean butterflies: the negative synergistic forces of climate and habitat change

(2010) Constanti Stefanescu et al.   ECOGRAPHY

A quantitative analysis of temporal turnover in aquatic species assemblages across ecosystems

(2010) Jenni J. Korhonen et al.   ECOLOGY

Temporal turnover and the maintenance of diversity in ecological assemblages

(2010) A. E. Magurran et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Community and ecosystem responses to recent climate change

(2010) G. R. Walther   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Compounded effects of climate change and habitat alteration shift patterns of butterfly diversity

(2010) M. L. Forister et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Long-term datasets in biodiversity research and monitoring: assessing change in ecological communities through time

(2010) Anne E. Magurran et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The UK Environmental Change Network: Emerging trends in the composition of plant and animal communities and the physical environment

(2009) M.D. Morecroft et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Associations between species and groups of sites: indices and statistical inference

(2009) Miquel De Cáceres et al.   ECOLOGY

Climate variability and change in the Greater Alpine Region over the last two centuries based on multi-variable analysis

(2009) Michele Brunetti et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

A weak upward elevational shift in the distributions of breeding birds in the Italian Alps

(2009) Simon Popy et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The Ecological Performance of Protected Areas

(2008) Kevin J. Gaston et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Effects of Climate and Land-Use Change on the Establishment and Growth of Cembran Pine (Pinus cembra L.) over the Altitudinal Treeline Ecotone in the Central Swiss Alps

(2008) Pascal Vittoz et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Changes in the composition of British butterfly assemblages over two decades

(2008) ADELA GONZÁLEZ-MEGÍAS et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

One century of vegetation change on Isla Persa, a nunatak in the Bernina massif in the Swiss Alps

(2008) Pascal Vittoz et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Short-term signals of climate change along an altitudinal gradient in the South Alps

(2008) Brigitta Erschbamer et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Synergies among extinction drivers under global change

(2008) B BROOK et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION