Trends and status of species and habitats need to be measured to assess whether global
biodiversity policy targets have been achieved. However, it is impossible to monitor all …

Ecological forecasting is difficult but essential, because reactive management results in
corrective actions that are often too late to avert significant environmental damage. Here, we …

Monitoring data on hibernating bats were aggregated for the first time across a number of
European countries. These supranational trends revealed that nine out of 16 bat species …

Background Fragmentation of terrestrial ecosystems has had detrimental effects on
metapopulations of habitat specialists. Maculinea butterflies have been particularly affected …

Zustand der Biodiversität Page 1 Zustand der Biodiversität in der Schweiz 2014 Die Analyse der
Wissenschaft Page 2 Die Fotos in diesem Bericht zeigen Beispiele des verbliebenen …

Semi-natural wet meadows are threatened by drainage, the abandonment of traditional
management and climate change. The large blue butterflies Maculinea teleius and M …

This paper examines the potential impact of climate change on grassland butterfly species in
Finland. It combines multiple climate change scenarios and different impact models for …

Dynamic models for range expansion provide a promising tool for assessing species'
capacity to respond to climate change by shifting their ranges to new areas. However, these …

Climate change has an effect upon the distribution of butterflies, affecting species that are
already sensitive due to their specific ecological requirements. This is the case of Phengaris …

Biodiversity in European agricultural landscapes is at stake, with many once widespread
species now being endangered, extinct or confined to few areas. So is the Danube Clouded …