Extinction debt: a challenge for biodiversity conservation

M Kuussaari, R Bommarco, RK Heikkinen… - Trends in ecology & …, 2009 - cell.com
Local extinction of species can occur with a substantial delay following habitat loss or
degradation. Accumulating evidence suggests that such extinction debts pose a significant …

The decline of butterflies in Europe: Problems, significance, and possible solutions

MS Warren, D Maes, CAM van Swaay… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
We review changes in the status of butterflies in Europe, focusing on long-running
population data available for the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Belgium, based on …

Risks of ignoring fish population spatial structure in fisheries management

Y Ying, Y Chen, L Lin, T Gao - Canadian Journal of Fisheries …, 2011 - cdnsciencepub.com
Ignorance of spatial structures in fisheries management may lead to unexpected risks of
overexploitation. Based on the information about small yellow croaker (Larimichthys …

Patch occupancy of grassland specialists: Habitat quality matters more than habitat connectivity

D Poniatowski, G Stuhldreher, F Löffler… - Biological Conservation, 2018 - Elsevier
Land-use change has caused degradation, loss and fragmentation of semi-natural habitats,
especially in grassland ecosystems. Today, the remaining habitats are often situated in a …

How is dispersal integrated in life histories: a quantitative analysis using butterflies

VM Stevens, A Trochet, H Van Dyck, J Clobert… - Ecology …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 74–86 Abstract As dispersal plays a key role in gene flow among
populations, its evolutionary dynamics under environmental changes is particularly …

A meta‐analysis of dispersal in butterflies

VM Stevens, C Turlure, M Baguette - Biological Reviews, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Dispersal has recently gained much attention because of its crucial role in the conservation
and evolution of species facing major environmental changes such as habitat loss and …

Land management impacts on European butterflies of conservation concern: a review

T Bubová, V Vrabec, M Kulma, P Nowicki - Journal of Insect Conservation, 2015 - Springer
Recent land use changes, namely the intensification of agriculture and forestry as well as
the abandonment of traditional grassland management methods, have resulted in the …

Cost distance modelling of landscape connectivity and gap‐crossing ability using radio‐tracking data

Y Richard, DP Armstrong - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Landscape connectivity, the ability of species to move between different elements of a
landscape, has been evaluated mainly by expert opinion, proxy data or homing …

Ecological time lags in biodiversity response to habitat changes

X Chen, Q Wang, B Cui, G Chen, T Xie… - Journal of Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
The decline of biodiversity can occur with a substantial delay following habitat loss,
degradation, and other environmental changes, such as global warming. Considerable time …

Minimum viable metapopulation size, extinction debt, and the conservation of a declining species

CR Bulman, RJ Wilson, AR Holt, LG Bravo… - Ecological …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
A key question facing conservation biologists is whether declines in species' distributions
are keeping pace with landscape change, or whether current distributions overestimate …