Comparative Losses of British Butterflies, Birds, and Plants and the Global Extinction Crisis

By Jeremy A. Thomas, M. Telfer, David Roy, C. Preston, J. Greenwood, J. Asher, R. Fox, R. Clarke, J. Lawton. Science, 2004

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

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Climatic Risk Atlas of European Butterflies (2008, background): “…short (typically annual) life cycles they are more sensitive than other groups to changes in their habitats (Thomas 1994, Van Swaay & Warren 1999, Thomas et al. 2004); (ii) due to breeding even in small habitat patches they are likely to refl ect changes occurring at a fi ne scale (Van Swaay et…”
How Many Species of Gall-Inducing Insects Are There on Earth, and Where Are They? (2009, background): “Furthermore, a recent study (Thomas et al. 2004) suggested that insects may be as sensitive to habitat loss and disturbance as birds and vascular plants, meaning that a colossal number of understudied, species-rich taxa are probably going extinct without scientiÞc recognition.”
Effects of agriculture expansion and intensification on the vertebrate and invertebrate diversity in the Pampas of Argentina (2011, background): “Population decline and species extinction have been reported for a numbers of birds and butterflies (Robinson and Sutherland 2002; Thomas et al. 2004; Butler et al. 2007).”
Climate-driven declines in arthropod abundance restructure a rainforest food web (2018, background): “Over a 20-y period, 54% of bird species native to Britain have also decreased (55).”
Predicting the future of species diversity: macroecological theory, climate change, and direct tests of alternative forecasting methods (2009, background): “These responses are expected to continue, plausibly causing rapid acceleration of extinction rates (Thomas et al. 2004), as climate and land-uses continue to change.”
Biotope Use and Trends of European Butterflies (2006, result): “Nevertheless the study supports the findings of Thomas et al. (2004) that butterflies are declining at least as fast as birds and possibly faster in many”
Native Pollinators in Anthropogenic Habitats (2011, background): “Across multiple EU countries, 37–65% of bee species are considered to be of conservation concern (Patiny et al. 2009), and in the United Kingdom (UK), 71% of butterfly species have declined to some extent over the past 20 years (Thomas et al. 2004).”
Butterfly monitoring in Europe: methods, applications and perspectives (2008, result): “This corresponds with the findings in the UK where butterflies have experienced greater losses than birds (Thomas et al. 2004).”
Toward monitoring global biodiversity (2008, background): “The extent to which the status and trends of these groups are broadly representative of the status and trends of biodiversity is unknown (Lawton et al. 1998; Thomas et al. 2004; Barlow et al. 2007).”