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A national-scale assessment of climate change impacts on species: Assessing the balance of risks and opportunities for multiple taxa

scholarly article by James W. Pearce-Higgins et al published September 2017 in Biological Conservation

A new Red List of British butterflies

article by Richard Fox et al published 13 October 2010 in Insect Conservation and Diversity

A new procedure for extrapolating turnover regionalization at mid-small spatial scales, tested on British butterflies

article by Leonardo Dapporto et al published 1 July 2015 in Methods in Ecology and Evolution

A window to the world of global insect declines: Moth biodiversity trends are complex and heterogeneous

scientific article published on 12 January 2021

Abundance changes and habitat availability drive species’ responses to climate change

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Annual estimates of occupancy for bryophytes, lichens and invertebrates in the UK, 1970-2015

scientific article published on 05 November 2019

Are neonicotinoid insecticides driving declines of widespread butterflies?

scientific article

Assessing species’ habitat associations from occurrence records, standardised monitoring data and expert opinion: A test with British butterflies

article by J.W. Redhead et al published March 2016 in Ecological Indicators

Assisted colonization in a changing climate: a test-study using two U.K. butterflies

article by Stephen G. Willis et al published February 2009 in Conservation Letters

British butterfly distributions and the 2010 target

article by Jim Asher et al published 26 September 2010 in Journal of Insect Conservation

Citizen science and invasive alien species: Predicting the detection of the oak processionary moth Thaumetopoea processionea by moth recorders

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Climate change, climatic variation and extreme biological responses

scientific article

Climate-induced phenology shifts linked to range expansions in species with multiple reproductive cycles per year

scientific article published on 24 October 2019

Climatic associations of British species distributions show good transferability in time but low predictive accuracy for range change

scientific article

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

scientific article

Developing a biodiversity-based indicator for large-scale environmental assessment: a case study of proposed shale gas extraction sites in Britain

scientific article published in 2016

Direct and indirect effects of climate and habitat factors on butterfly diversity

scientific article

Does including physiology improve species distribution model predictions of responses to recent climate change?

scientific article

Dynamic distribution modelling: predicting the present from the past

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Efficient occupancy model-fitting for extensive citizen-science data

scientific article

Extinction risk from climate change is reduced by microclimatic buffering

scholarly article by Andrew J. Suggitt et al published 23 July 2018 in Nature Climate Change

Geographical range margins of many taxonomic groups continue to shift polewards

Government targets for protected area management: will threatened butterflies benefit?

article by Harriet Davies et al published 6 June 2007 in Biodiversity and Conservation

Habitat availability explains variation in climate-driven range shifts across multiple taxonomic groups

scientific article published on 21 October 2019

High Abundances of Species in Protected Areas in Parts of their Geographic Distributions Colonized during a Recent Period of Climatic Change

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Impacts of climate warming and habitat loss on extinctions at species' low-latitude range boundaries

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Impacts of landscape structure on butterfly range expansion

article by J.K. Hill et al published July 2001 in Ecology Letters

Inconsistent results from trait-based analyses of moth trends point to complex drivers of change

scientific article published in 2022

Insect population trends and the IUCN Red List process

article by Richard Fox et al published 19 December 2018 in Journal of Insect Conservation

Insect responses to global change offer signposts for biodiversity and conservation

scientific article published on 12 November 2020

Is light pollution driving moth population declines? A review of causal mechanisms across the life cycle

scientific article published on 28 September 2020

Linking climate warming and land conversion to species’ range changes across Great Britain

Long-term changes to the frequency of occurrence of British moths are consistent with opposing and synergistic effects of climate and land-use changes

scientific article

Long-term population trends in widespread British moths

article by Kelvin F. Conrad et al published 2004 in Journal of Insect Conservation

Long-term population trends in widespread British moths

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Microclimate affects landscape level persistence in the British Lepidoptera

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Moths

scholarly chapter in Silent Summer

Moths count: recording moths for conservation in the UK

article by Richard Fox et al published 15 July 2010 in Journal of Insect Conservation

Multi-generational long-distance migration of insects: studying the painted lady butterfly in the Western Palaearctic

scientific article (publication date: 16 October 2012)

Opinions of citizen scientists on open access to UK butterfly and moth occurrence data

scientific article published on 29 July 2019

Pollination by nocturnal Lepidoptera, and the effects of light pollution: a review

scientific article

Population variability in species can be deduced from opportunistic citizen science records: a case study using British butterflies

article by Suzanna C. Mason et al published 3 July 2017 in Insect Conservation and Diversity

Prioritizing multiple-use landscapes for conservation: methods for large multi-species planning problems

scientific article published in September 2005

Protected areas facilitate species' range expansions

scientific article

Quantifying range-wide variation in population trends from local abundance surveys and widespread opportunistic occurrence records

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Rapid declines of common, widespread British moths provide evidence of an insect biodiversity crisis

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Rapid responses of British butterflies to opposing forces of climate and habitat change

scientific article

Responses of butterflies to twentieth century climate warming: implications for future ranges

scientific article (publication date: 22 October 2002)

Spatial patterns in species distributions reveal biodiversity change

scientific article published in November 2004

Species richness changes lag behind climate change

scientific article published in June 2006

Species richness declines and biotic homogenisation have slowed down for NW-European pollinators and plants

scientific article

Species traits influence the process of biodiversity inventorying: a case study using the British butterfly database

scientific article published on 09 June 2021

Surrogacy and persistence in reserve selection: landscape prioritization for multiple taxa in Britain

scientific article published in 2009

Temperature-dependent alterations in host use drive rapid range expansion in a butterfly.

scientific article

Temporal variation in responses of species to four decades of climate warming

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The dark side of street lighting: impacts on moths and evidence for the disruption of nocturnal pollen transport

scientific article published on June 2016

The decline of moths in Great Britain: a review of possible causes

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The distributions of a wide range of taxonomic groups are expanding polewards

The effectiveness of protected areas in the conservation of species with changing geographical ranges

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The effects of visual apparency on bias in butterfly recording and monitoring

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The utility of distribution data in predicting phenology

article by Tom R. Bishop et al published 16 October 2013 in Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Traits data for the butterflies and macro‐moths of Great Britain and Ireland

scientific article published in 2022

Uncovering hidden spatial structure in species communities with spatially explicit joint species distribution models

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Using citizen science butterfly counts to predict species population trends

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Wildfire alters the structure and seasonal dynamics of nocturnal pollen‐transport networks

scientific article published in 2019