Assisted colonization in a changing climate: a test‐study using two U.K. butterflies

By S. G. Willis, Jane K. Hill, Christopher M Thomas, David Roy, R. Fox, D. S. Blakeley, Brian Huntley. 2009

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Conservation biogeography of the US–Mexico border: a transcontinental risk assessment of barriers to animal dispersal (2011, background): “However, reduced permeability of the US–Mexico border might slow the dispersal-limited process of climatespace tracking (Willis et al., 2009) or halt species’ range expansion (Keitt et al.”
A framework for assessing threats and benefits to species responding to climate change (2011, background): “…that have already been observed (e.g. Araújo et al. 2005; Walther, Berger & Sykes 2005; Pearman et al. 2008; Vallecillo, Brotons & Thuiller 2009; Willis et al. 2009a; Wilson, Davies & Thomas 2009, 2010; Ficetola et al. 2010) and when alternative models and scenarios project comparable changes;…”
Transformational adaptation when incremental adaptations to climate change are insufficient (2012, background): “Some important research directions that can support relocation include the creation of new infrastructure siting and design standards (72); novel land use instruments, such as rolling easements that allow for timely response (73); and research into prospects, mechanisms, and costs for assisted reloc”
Assisted colonization: Integrating conservation strategies in the face of climate change (2011, methodology): “In practice, assisted colonization has shown some promise as a conservation tool (Willis et al., 2009).”
Recent evidence for the climate change threat to Lepidoptera and other insects (2011, background): “Where studies have been carried out at lower latitudes, such as in Mediterranean mountains, species distributions have been observed to contract (Wilson et al. 2005) or predicted to do so (Hoyle and James 2005).”
Two alternative evaluation metrics to replace the true skill statistic in the assessment of species distribution models (2019, methodology): “comprising only zeros and ones) used to evaluate wildlife management options, to identify appropriate conservation translocation sites and to evaluate model performance (Willis et al. 2009; Fordham et al. 2012; Liu et al. 2013) with confusion matrix-based performance metrics.”
Insect responses to global change offer signposts for biodiversity and conservation (2020, background): “Bioclimate or species distribution models (SDMs) are based on the premise that the environmental niches of species include restricted climatic tolerances, which limit species’ geographic distributions (Guisan et al., 2017).”
The performance of protected areas for biodiversity under climate change (2015, background): “In 2000, Willis et al. (2009) translocated female marbled white (Melanargia galathea) butterflies to beyond the northern edge of their former range boundary in Britain.”