Vegetation encroachment drives changes in the composition of butterfly assemblages and species loss in Mediterranean ecosystems

Contrasting impacts of precipitation on Mediterranean birds and butterflies

(2019) Sergi Herrando et al.   Scientific Reports

Phenotypic biomarkers of climatic impacts on declining insect populations: a key role for decadal drought, thermal buffering and amplification effects and host plant dynamics

(2018) Jofre Carnicer et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas

(2017) Caspar A. Hallmann et al.   PLoS One

Exploring the links between forest transition and landscape changes in the Mediterranean. Does forest recovery really lead to better landscape quality?

(2015) Joan Marull et al.   AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS

Shrub Encroachment Affects the Diversity of Plants, Butterflies, and Grasshoppers on Two Swiss Subalpine Pastures

(2015) Bärbel Koch et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Carabid beetles as indicators for shrub encroachment in dry grasslands

(2015) Jens Schirmel et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Assessing impacts of land abandonment on Mediterranean biodiversity using indicators based on bird and butterfly monitoring data

(2015) SERGI HERRANDO et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

A regionally informed abundance index for supporting integrative analyses across butterfly monitoring schemes

(2015) Reto Schmucki et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Determinants of extinction-colonization dynamics in Mediterranean butterflies: the role of landscape, climate and local habitat features

(2013) Albert Fernández-Chacón et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Translating land cover/land use classifications to habitat taxonomies for landscape monitoring: a Mediterranean assessment

(2013) Valeria Tomaselli et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Pastoral Practices to Reverse Shrub Encroachment of Sub-Alpine Grasslands: Dung Beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea) Respond More Quickly Than Vegetation

(2013) Claudia Tocco et al.   PLoS One

Habitat associations of species show consistent but weak responses to climate

(2012) A. J. Suggitt et al.   Biology Letters

Using landscape structure to develop quantitative baselines for protected area monitoring

(2012) Paola Mairota et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

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

(2012) Vincent Devictor et al.   Nature Climate Change

Shrub encroachment in Mediterranean silvopastoral systems: Retama sphaerocarpa and Cistus ladanifer induce contrasting effects on pasture and Quercus ilex production

(2011) David Rivest et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Forest fuel management as a conservation tool for early successional species under agricultural abandonment: The case of Mediterranean butterflies

(2011) Maria João Verdasca et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Woody encroachment decreases diversity across North American grasslands and savannas

(2011) Zakary Ratajczak et al.   ECOLOGY

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

Habitat fragmentation causes immediate and time-delayed biodiversity loss at different trophic levels

(2010) Jochen Krauss et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Heterogeneous landscapes promote population stability

(2010) Tom Oliver et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Land cover change in Europe between 1950 and 2000 determined employing aerial photography

(2010) F. Gerard et al.   PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

Rapid changes in butterfly communities following the abandonment of grasslands: a case study

(2009) CONSTANTÍ STEFANESCU et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Causes and consequences of woody plant encroachment into western North American grasslands

(2009) O.W. Van Auken   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

A landscape perspective on conservation of semi-natural grasslands

(2008) Regina Lindborg et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Butterfly monitoring in Europe: methods, applications and perspectives

(2008) Chris A. M. van Swaay et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Long-term land-use changes and extinction of specialised butterflies

(2008) SVEN G. NILSSON et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity