Effects of climatic change on the phenology of butterflies in the northwest Mediterranean Basin

By C. Stefanescu, Josep Peñuelas, Iolanda Filella. 2003

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

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Warming advances top-down control and reduces producer biomass in a freshwater plankton community (2017, background): “Earlier studies have also shown advanced consumer phenology in response to warming in a variety of ecosystems, for instance for freshwater zooplankton (Adrian et al. 2006), marine turtles (Mazaris et al. 2008), and Mediterranean butterflies (Stefanescu et al. 2003).”
Microclimate Variability Significantly Affects the Composition, Abundance and Phenology of Butterfly Communities in a Highly Threatened Neotropical Dry Forest (2014, background): “…to global warming could also alter the phenology of butterfly populations, changing times of appearance or peaks in abundance (roy & sparks 2000; stefanescu et al. 2003), which in turn may disrupt the relationship between butterflies and their host plants or adult resources (hanski et al.…”
How are insects responding to global warming (2007, background): “In Spain butterflies have advanced their first appearance between one and seven weeks in a period of 15 year (Stefanescu et al. 2003) and by around eight days per decade in California (Forister & Shapiro 2003).”
Using functional groups to investigate community response to environmental changes: two grassland case studies (2007, background): “…1999; Penuelas et al., 2002; Watt & McFarlane, 2002), the use of specific populations as potential indicator species (van Dobben & ter Braak, 1999; Stefanescu et al., 2003) and species-specific change (expansion, reduction, shift) of range (climate envelope, Parmesan et al., 1999; Thomas et al.,…”
The influence of temperature on migration of Lepidoptera into Britain (2005, background): “Changes to butterfly phenology (Roy & Sparks, 2000) have been reported for the UK, with species advancing their flight periods by some 2–10 days for every 1 1C increase in temperature, and advances have also been reported in Spain (Stefanescu et al., 2003) and California (Forister & Shapiro, 2003).”
Climate change and bird phenology: a long‐term study in the Iberian Peninsula (2006, background): “Warmer springs in Spain advance arrivals due to the advancement of the spring in the breeding grounds (Peñuelas et al., 2002; Stefanescu et al., 2003; Gordo & Sanz, 2005) that increases chances for foraging and survival of early individuals which could progress through Spain more quickly.”
Predicting species distributions: use of climatic parameters in BIOCLIM and its impact on predictions of species’ current and future distributions (2005, background): “There is a growing body of literature revealing consistent responses of plants and animals to the temperature increase experienced so far (Parmesan et al., 1999; Pounds et al., 1999; Thomas and Lennon, 1999; Hughes, 2000; Kiesecker et al., 2001; McCarthy, 2001; Thomas et al., 2001; McLaughlin et al.”
Butterfly species richness in the north‐west Mediterranean Basin: the role of natural and human‐induced factors (2004, background): “More recently, climatic warming has been added to the list of factors known to be the driving forces of recorded changes (Peñuelas et al., 2002; Stefanescu et al., 2003).”
Impact of climate change on plant phenology in Mediterranean ecosystems (2010, background): “This suggests that insect-dependent species have evolved to respond strongly to climate fluctuations, as insects do (Roy & Sparks, 2000; Stefanescu et al., 2003; Gordo & Sanz, 2006b), and to maintain a perfect match with their insect pollinators.”
Unexpected phenological responses of butterflies to the interaction of urbanization and geographic temperature (2014, methodology): “…indicator of biological responses to environmental change (IPCC 2007), have been found with urbanization (White et al. 2002, Neil and Wu 2006) and are among the most common responses to global climate change (Roy and Sparks 2000, Forister and Shapiro 2003, Stefanescu et al. 2003, Parmesan 2007).”
Influences of species, latitudes and methodologies on estimates of phenological response to global warming (2007, background): “Species that specialized on grasses had a stronger advancement than did butterflies whose larvae fed on herbs (Stefanescu et al., 2003).”
Increased migration of Lepidoptera linked to climate change (2007, background): “…of rising temperatures are focussed on the northern temperate zone and include advanced phenology (Roy & Sparks, 2000; Forister & Shapiro, 2003; Stefanescu et al., 2003, Dell et al., 2005), changes in morphology, widening habitat base, increased population size, and altitudinal (Konvi ka et…”
Recent trends in butterfly populations from north-east Spain and Andorra in the light of habitat and climate change (2011, background): “…chrysippus, Monarch Danaus plexippus, Desert Orange Tip Colotis evagore and Green-striped White Euchloe belemia), while remarkable advances in the flight periods of different species have also been recorded at a number of sites (Peñuelas et al. 2002; Stefanescu et al. 2003; Gordo and Sanz 2005).”
Uncovering, Collecting, and Analyzing Records to Investigate the Ecological Impacts of Climate Change: A Template from Thoreau's Concord (2012, methodology): “We have, however, found data describing butterfly phenology, a group known to be sensitive to temperature (figure 5; Stefanescu et al. 2003).”
Butterfly monitoring in Europe: methods, applications and perspectives (2008, background): “Here we mention only a few examples: • Climate change: Several schemes were used to examine the changes in phenology (Roy and Sparks 2000; Stefanescu et al. 2003; Kühn et al. 2008; Van Strien et al. 2008, see Fig.”