The challenge of conserving grassland insects at the margins of their range in Europe

By N. Bourn, Jeremy A. Thomas. 2002

137 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Josef Settele
2. T. Tscharntke
3. Wilfried Thuiller
4. Miguel B. Araújo
5. I. Steffan‐Dewenter
6. Jochen Krauss
7. Risto Heikkinen
8. Miska Luoto

In Genetics

1. T. Tscharntke
2. I. Steffan‐Dewenter
3. Wilfried Thuiller
4. Josef Settele
5. Miska Luoto
6. Michiel F. Wa Llisdevries
7. Jochen Krauss
8. J. Dover

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. Wilfried Thuiller
2. Miguel B. Araújo
3. Josef Settele
4. Miska Luoto
5. Risto Heikkinen
6. Mathieu Marmion
7. T. Tscharntke
8. J. Pöyry

Citations in the corpus

• The State of the UK's Butterflies 2011 (2011, unknown): “45 Bourn & Thomas 2002 46 Thomas et al. 2009 47 Porter & Ellis 2011 48 Jones et al. 2019 49 Bourn et al. 2013 Large Blue EN G LA N D Expansion of the Purple Emperor’s distribution.”
• The relationship between local extinctions of grassland butterflies and increased soil nitrogen levels (2006, background): “…be detected at regional or local scales, for example as altitudinal shifts (Konvicka et al., 2003) or changes in survival rates due to changed micro-climate, which is an important aspect of habitat quality for many insect species, especially at the extremes of their range (Bourn and Thomas, 2002).”
• Monitoring change in the abundance and distribution of insects using butterflies and other indicator groups (2005, background): “…Godfray & Műller 1998; Hanski 1998, 1999; Hassell 1998a; Murdoch et al. 1998; Thomas et al. 1999a,b, 2001a,b; Roy et al. 2001; Warren et al. 2001; Bourn & Thomas 2002) plus assessments of the extent to which well-studied groups of insect are representative of obscure ones (Thomas & Morris 1995;…”
• Effects of livestock breed and grazing intensity on biodiversity and production in grazing systems. 4. Effects on animal diversity (2007, background): “It is clear that species differ in ecological requirements and may therefore show contrasting responses to different types of management (e.g. Morris, 1990; 2000; Bourn and Thomas, 2002; Dennis et al., 2004).”
• The decline of moths in Great Britain: a review of possible causes (2013, background): “…may benefit grassland insects, the permanent abandonment of traditional pastoral agriculture, leading to rapid ecological succession, can be detrimental (Balmer & Erhardt, 2000; Bourn & Thomas, 2002; Öckinger et al., 2006; van Swaay et al., 2006; Settele et al., 2009; Stefanescu et al., 2009).”
• Global warming and excess nitrogen may induce butterfly decline by microclimatic cooling (2006, background): “…but should be seen as a widespread environmental threat to a r 2006 The Authors Journal compilation r 2006 Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Global Change Biology, 12, 1620–1626 whole suite of species with a similar life history, including other thermophilous insects (Willott, 1997; Bourn & Thomas, 2002).”
• Distribution patterns in butterflies and birds of the Czech Republic: separating effects of habitat and geographical position (2003, background): “The effect is more obvious in butterflies, which as heliophilous ectothermous organisms are strongly associated with warmer climate in central/northern Europe (Turner et al., 1987) and many of them depend on warm refugia (Thomas, 1993; Bourn & Thomas, 2002).”
• Can vulnerability among British bumblebee (Bombus) species be explained by niche position and breadth (2007, background): “Recently, an interaction of climate and suitable habitat has also been suggested to govern the distributions of some butterflies near the edges of their ranges in Britain (Hill et al., 1999; Thomas et al., 1999; Bourn and Thomas, 2002).”
• Relative importance of resource quantity, isolation and habitat quality for landscape distribution of a monophagous butterfly (2005, background): “Polyommatus coridon also reaches its northern distribution range in our study region (Kudrna 2002), where effects of habitat fragmentation should be particularly important (Bourn and Thomas 2002, Krauss et al. 2004c).”
• The influences of landscape structure on butterfly distribution and movement: a review (2009, background): “…warm closely grazed south-facing slopes in the UK due to the thermal ecology of its host ant, but in the warmer climates of central France it prefers flat and north facing tall grasslands as the local temperatures are too high for its persistence (Erhardt and Thomas 1991; Bourn and Thomas 2002).”
• Global warming and excess nitrogen may induce butterfly decline by microclimatic cooling (2006, background): “…but should be seen as a widespread environmental threat to a r 2006 The Authors Journal compilation r 2006 Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Global Change Biology, 12, 1620–1626 whole suite of species with a similar life history, including other thermophilous insects (Willott, 1997; Bourn & Thomas, 2002).”
• Assessing the vulnerability of European butterflies to climate change using multiple criteria (2010, background): “2006), although the challenges for species tracking the changing climate are greater than ever before (Huntley 1998; Bourn and Thomas 2002).”