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List of works by David B. Roy

A Synthesis is Emerging between Biodiversity-Ecosystem Function and Ecological Resilience Research: Reply to Mori

scientific article published on 13 January 2016

A generalized abundance index for seasonal invertebrates

scientific article

A northward shift of range margins in British Odonata

A phylogenetically-informed trait-based analysis of range change in the vascular plant flora of Britain

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A regionally informed abundance index for supporting integrative analyses across butterfly monitoring schemes

article by Reto Schmucki et al published 25 November 2015 in Journal of Applied Ecology

Abundance trends for river macroinvertebrates vary across taxa, trophic group and river typology

scientific article published in 2022

Allee effects and the spatial dynamics of a locally endangered butterfly, the high brown fritillary (Argynnis adippe).

scientific article

An agenda for the future of biological recording for ecological monitoring and citizen science

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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

Application of generalized additive models to butterfly transect count data

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Assessing the condition of lake habitats: a test of methods for surveying aquatic macrophyte communities

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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

Asynchrony in terrestrial insect abundance corresponds with species traits

scientific article published in 2024

Balancing alternative land uses in conservation prioritization

scientific article

Beyond the EDGE with EDAM: Prioritising British Plant Species According to Evolutionary Distinctiveness, and Accuracy and Magnitude of Decline

scientific article

Biodiversity and Resilience of Ecosystem Functions

scientific article published on 16 September 2015

Butterflies reset the calendar

article by Robert J. Wilson & David B. Roy published May 2011 in Nature Climate Change

Butterfly abundance in a warming climate: patterns in space and time are not congruent

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Can trait-based analyses of changes in species distribution be transferred to new geographic areas?

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Changes in habitat specificity of species at their climatic range boundaries

scientific article published on October 2009

Changes in the composition of British butterfly assemblages over two decades

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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

Data-derived metrics describing the behaviour of field-based citizen scientists provide insights for project design and modelling bias

scientific article published on 03 July 2020

Declines in forage availability for bumblebees at a national scale

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Declining resilience of ecosystem functions under biodiversity loss

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

Developing and enhancing biodiversity monitoring programmes: a collaborative assessment of priorities.

scientific article

Differences in the climatic debts of birds and butterflies at a continental scale

article by Vincent Devictor et al published 10 January 2012 in Nature Climate Change

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

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Disentangling the role of environmental and human pressures on biological invasions across Europe ⬇️

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Does diet breadth control herbivorous insect distribution size? Life history and resource outlets for specialist butterflies

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Ecological indicator values of British species: an application of Gaussian logistic regression

scientific article published on 2000

Ecological monitoring with citizen science: the design and implementation of schemes for recording plants in Britain and Ireland

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Effects on weed and invertebrate abundance and diversity of herbicide management in genetically modified herbicide-tolerant winter-sown oilseed rape

scientific article (publication date: 7 March 2005)

Efficient occupancy model-fitting for extensive citizen-science data

scientific article

Empirical realised niche models for British higher and lower plants - development and preliminary testing

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Environmental drivers of annual population fluctuations in a trans-Saharan insect migrant

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Error propagation associated with benefits transfer-based mapping of ecosystem services

scholarly article by Felix Eigenbrod et al published November 2010 in Biological Conservation

European butterfly populations vary in sensitivity to weather across their geographical ranges

article by Simon C. Mills et al published 20 October 2017 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

Extending Ellenberg's indicator values to a new area: an algorithmic approach

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Fifty years of the Biological Records Centre

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 associations of species show consistent but weak responses to climate

scientific article

Habitat associations of thermophilous butterflies are reduced despite climatic warming

scientific article

Habitat microclimates drive fine-scale variation in extreme temperatures

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Harmonia axyridis in Great Britain: analysis of the spread and distribution of a non-native coccinellid

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Heterogeneous landscapes promote population stability

scientific article published on 8 February 2010

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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Host plants and butterfly biology. Do host-plant strategies drive butterfly status?

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How well do we understand the impacts of alien species on ecosystem services? A pan-European, cross-taxa assessment

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Impacts of neonicotinoid use on long-term population changes in wild bees in England ⬇️

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Indexing butterfly abundance whilst accounting for missing counts and variability in seasonal pattern

scientific article published on 26 April 2013

Introduced plants as novel Anthropocene habitats for insects

scientific article published on 16 December 2019

Invasive alien predator causes rapid declines of native European ladybirds

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Invertebrate responses to the management of genetically modified herbicide-tolerant and conventional spring crops. II. Within-field epigeal and aerial arthropods

scientific article

Invertebrates and vegetation of field margins adjacent to crops subject to contrasting herbicide regimes in the Farm Scale Evaluations of genetically modified herbicide-tolerant crops

scientific article published in November 2003

Large extents of intensive land use limit community reorganization during climate warming.

scientific article

Local adaptation to climate anomalies relates to species phylogeny

scientific article published in 2022

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

Measuring functional connectivity using long-term monitoring data

article by Gary D. Powney et al published 9 March 2011 in Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Mechanisms underpinning community stability along a latitudinal gradient: Insights from a niche‐based approach

scientific article published in 2023

Modern Approaches to the Monitoring of Biоdiversity (MAMBO)

scientific article published on 7 December 2023

Monitoring Trends in Biological Invasion, its Impact and Policy Responses

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

scientific article (publication date: 16 October 2012)

National patterns of functional diversity and redundancy in predatory ground beetles and bees associated with key UK arable crops

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Overcoming the challenges of public data archiving for citizen science biodiversity recording and monitoring schemes

scientific article published in 2018

Patterns and causes of covariation in bird and butterfly community structure

scientific article published on 21 April 2015

Patterns of contribution to citizen science biodiversity projects increase understanding of volunteers' recording behaviour

scientific article

Plant extinctions and introductions lead to phylogenetic and taxonomic homogenization of the European flora ⬇️

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Plant traits as predictors of performance in ecological restoration

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Population density but not stability can be predicted from species distribution models

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Population resilience to an extreme drought is influenced by habitat area and fragmentation in the local landscape

scientific article published in 2012

Predicting resilience of ecosystem functioning from co-varying species' responses to environmental change

scientific article published on 27 September 2019

Protected areas facilitate species' range expansions

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

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Range expansion through fragmented landscapes under a variable climate

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Rapid range shifts of species associated with high levels of climate warming

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Reconciling biodiversity and carbon conservation

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Reduced variability in range-edge butterfly populations over three decades of climate warming

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Representation of ecosystem services by tiered conservation strategies

scholarly article by Felix Eigenbrod et al published 24 February 2010 in Conservation Letters

Research questions to facilitate the future development of European long-term ecosystem research infrastructures: A horizon scanning exercise

scientific article published on 06 September 2019

Responses of plants and invertebrate trophic groups to contrasting herbicide regimes in the Farm Scale Evaluations of genetically modified herbicide-tolerant crops.

scientific article

Similarities in butterfly emergence dates among populations suggest local adaptation to climate

scientific article published on 17 June 2015

Spatial covariance between biodiversity and other ecosystem service priorities

scholarly article by Barbara J. Anderson et al published August 2009 in Journal of Applied Ecology

Spatial covariation between freshwater and terrestrial ecosystem services

scientific article

Spatial patterns in species distributions reveal biodiversity change

scientific article published in November 2004

Spatial trends in the sighting dates of British butterflies.

scientific article

Species richness changes lag behind climate change

scientific article published in June 2006

Spread of a model invasive alien species, the harlequin ladybird Harmonia axyridis in Britain and Ireland ⬇️

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Statistics for citizen science: extracting signals of change from noisy ecological data

article by Nick J. B. Isaac et al published 27 September 2014 in Methods in Ecology and Evolution

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

scientific article published in 2009

Synchrony of butterfly populations across species' geographic ranges

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TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

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

scientific article

Temporal validation plots: quantifying how well correlative species distribution models predict species' range changes over time

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The Biological Records Centre: a pioneer of citizen science

The changing status of the Chalkhill Blue butterfly Polyommatus coridon in the UK: the impacts of conservation policies and environmental factors

article by Tom M Brereton et al published 20 July 2007 in Journal of Insect Conservation

The design, launch and assessment of a new volunteer-based plant monitoring scheme for the United Kingdom

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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 impact of proxy-based methods on mapping the distribution of ecosystem services

scholarly article by Felix Eigenbrod et al published April 2010 in Journal of Applied Ecology

The influence of chalk grasslands on butterfly phenology and ecology

scientific article published on 07 October 2021

The relative exploitation of annuals as larval host plants by European butterflies

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The role of 'Big Society' in monitoring the state of the natural environment

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The role of the North Atlantic Oscillation in controlling U.K. butterfly population size and phenology

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The use of opportunistic data for IUCN Red List assessments

article by Dirk Maes et al published 9 April 2015 in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Troubling travellers: are ecologically harmful alien species associated with particular introduction pathways?

scientific article published on 4 January 2017

Turnover and trends in butterfly communities on two British tidal islands: stochastic influences and deterministic factors

article by Roger L. H. Dennis et al published 16 August 2010 in Journal of Biogeography

Two Species with an Unusual Combination of Traits Dominate Responses of British Grasshoppers and Crickets to Environmental Change

scientific article published on 25 June 2015

Unbiased inference of plant flowering phenology from biological recording data

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Uncertainty in thermal tolerances and climatic debt

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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Weeds in fields with contrasting conventional and genetically modified herbicide–tolerant crops. II. Effects on individual species ⬇️

scientific article published on November 29, 2003

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