Butterfly diversity loss in Flanders (north Belgium): Europe's worst case scenario?

By Dirk Maes, H. Van Dyck. 2001

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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How too much care kills species: Grassland reserves, agri-environmental schemes and extinction of Colias myrmidone (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) from its former stronghold (2008, background): “The last few decades have brought about two interrelated trends: agricultural intensification and land abandonment, both causing severe declines of grassland insects, including butterflies (Erhardt 1985; Thomas 1995; Maes and Van Dyck 2001; Van Swaay 2002).”
Habitat quality and biodiversity indicator performances of a threatened butterfly versus a multispecies group for wet heathlands in Belgium (2005, background): “gate ant brood parasite (in Belgium mainly of Myrmica ruginodis ; Elmes et al., 1994) and only uses Gentiana pneumonanthe as a larval host plant ( Maes and Van Dyck, 1999 ).”
Contrasting trends of butterfly species preferring semi-natural grasslands, field margins and forest edges in northern Europe (2007, methodology): “In addition to the association between species habitat preferences and trends in occupancy, we study whether the trends are associated with species traits, following the recent studies by Maes and van Dyck (2001) , Kotiaho et al. (2005), O ¨ ckinger et al. (2006) and Wenzel et al. (2006).”
Species traits are associated with the quality of bioclimatic models (2008, methodology): “For the other 24 species we estimated the nutrient status of the breeding habitat based on the Ellenberg values (Ellenberg, 1988) of their larval host plants in Finland following the methodology of Maes and van Dyck (2001).”
Importance of boreal grasslands in Sweden for butterfly diversity and effects of local and landscape habitat factors (2007, background): “This is also the case in 5 £ 5 km squares in Flanders in northern Belgium before and after 1991 ( Maes and Van Dyck 2001 ).”
Metapopulation dynamics of the bog fritillary butterfly: comparison of demographic parameters and dispersal between a continuous and a highly fragmented landscape (2003, background): “In Western Europe, intensification of agricultural practices – induced by land consolidation policy – have led to drastic transformations of man-shaped landscapes for the last 50 years (Bouma et al. 1998; Maes and Van Dyck 2001 ) and most natural habitats have been abandoned, destroyed or subdivide”
Rapid responses of British butterflies to opposing forces of climate and habitat change (2001, background): “In conjunction, low mobility and high habitat specialization restrict species in fragmented habitats, and limit expansion across patchy, human-modified landscape”