The re-expansion and improving status of the silver-spotted skipper butterfly (Hesperia comma) in Britain: a metapopulation success story

By Z. Davies, Robert J. Wilson, T. Brereton, Christopher M Thomas. 2005

101 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecological Modeling

1. Josef Settele
2. M. Kuussaari
3. J. Pöyry
4. I. Maclean
5. Janne Heliölä
6. Robert J. Wilson
7. K. Saarinen
8. J. Dover

In Ecology

1. J. Pöyry
2. J. Dover
3. D. Bell
4. Robert J. Wilson
5. K. Saarinen
6. Josef Settele
7. M. Kuussaari
8. Alexander C. Lees

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. Josef Settele
2. M. Kuussaari
3. J. Pöyry
4. K. Saarinen
5. I. Maclean
6. Janne Heliölä
7. Robert J. Wilson
8. J. Dover

Citations in the corpus

• A conservation paradox for the 21st century: The European wild rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus, an invasive alien and an endangered native species (2008, background): “The re-expansion of populations of silver-spotted skipper butterfly Hesperia comma has also been attributed to a recovery of local rabbit populations (Davies et al., 2005).”
• Contrasting trends of butterfly species preferring semi-natural grasslands, field margins and forest edges in northern Europe (2007, background): “On the other hand, relatively few European studies have reported increases of butterflies, although several recent studies have associated the observed increasing trends and expansions of butterflies in their northern ranges to climate change (Parmesan et al. 1999; Thomas et al. 2001; Warren et al. ”
• The influences of landscape structure on butterfly distribution and movement: a review (2009, background): “A study by Davies et al. (2005) on Hesperia comma in the UK demonstrates how several different factors can affect the landscape-scale dynamics of butterflies.”
• Population density but not stability can be predicted from species distribution models (2012, unknown): “predictor of occurrence and density (Davies et al. 2005).”
• Recent evidence for the climate change threat to Lepidoptera and other insects (2011, background): “Others) Borneo Davies et al. (2005) Lepidoptera (Hesperia comma) England potential distribution size than the No Dispersal scenario; and in seven out of 15 cases, the Full Dispersal scenario led on average (across the three climate change scenarios) to modelled increases in the size of the climate…”
• Evidence based conservation of butterflies (2011, background): “Most involve Melitaeninae and related fritillaries (e.g. Hanski 1994; Bulman et al. 2007), with examples also from the Lycaenidae and Hesperiidae (CD Thomas et al. 2001; Davies et al. 2005) The remaining evidence-base for metapopulation viability is too well established (e.g. Hanski 1999) to need re”