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List of works by Thomas Merckx

Anthropogenic host plant expansion leads a nettle-feeding butterfly out of the forest: consequences for larval survival and developmental plasticity in adult morphology

scientific article published on 13 February 2015

Beta diversity patterns reveal positive effects of farmland abandonment on moth communities

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Body-size shifts in aquatic and terrestrial urban communities

scientific article published in Nature

Ecological and life‐history traits predict temporal trends in biomass of boreal moths

scientific article published on 29 May 2023

Effect of field margins on moths depends on species mobility: Field-based evidence for landscape-scale conservation

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Elevational species richness gradients in a hyperdiverse insect taxon: a global meta-study on geometrid moths

article by Jan Beck et al published 9 December 2016 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

Evolutionary change in flight-to-light response in urban moths comes with changes in wing morphology

scientific article published in March 2024

Habitat amount, not patch size and isolation, drives species richness of macro‐moth communities in countryside landscapes

scientific article published on 16 March 2019

Habitat fragmentation impacts mobility in a common and widespread woodland butterfly: do sexes respond differently?

scientific article

Increased body size along urbanization gradients at both community and intraspecific level in macro-moths

scientific article published on 23 May 2018

Interrelations Among Habitat Use, Behavior, and Flight-Related Morphology in Two Cooccurring Satyrine Butterflies, Maniola jurtina and Pyronia tithonus

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Joint species movement modeling: how do traits influence movements?

scientific article published on 21 February 2019

Life-history traits and landscape characteristics predict macro-moth responses to forest fragmentation

scientific article

Macro-moth families differ in their attraction to light: implications for light-trap monitoring programmes

article by Thomas Merckx & Eleanor M Slade published 24 January 2014 in Insect Conservation and Diversity

Personality traits influence contest outcome, and vice versa, in a territorial butterfly

scientific article published on 26 February 2019

Reshaping agri-environmental subsidies: From marginal farming to large-scale rewilding

scientific article published in 2015

Species traits shape the relationship between local and regional species abundance distributions

scientific article published on 14 May 2019

The Urban Heat Island and its spatial scale dependent impact on survival and development in butterflies of different thermal sensitivity

scientific article

The evolution of movements and behaviour at boundaries in different landscapes: a common arena experiment with butterflies.

scientific article published in September 2003

Urbanization drives community shifts towards thermophilic and dispersive species at local and landscape scales.

scientific article

Urbanization drives cross-taxon declines in abundance and diversity at multiple spatial scales

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Urbanization extends flight phenology and leads to local adaptation of seasonal plasticity in Lepidoptera

scientific article published on 01 October 2021

Urbanization‐driven homogenization is more pronounced and happens at wider spatial scales in nocturnal and mobile flying insects

scientific article published in 2019