… butterfly communities at 21 grassland patches in south-eastern Germany, with 17 study
sites on grassland patches across an agricultural … We assigned butterflies into two groups, …

… The greatest declines were observed among specialist butterflies of grassland biotopes (19…
and drainages structures was considered the driving factors for the declines. The large, long-…

… on butterfly and orthopteran diversity to understand the mechanisms driving decline after land
abandonment and intensification. … lower in abandoned and intensified grasslands than in …

… These time windows coincide with periods characterized by severe habitat destruction
and the deterioration of habitat quality due to agricultural intensification. We found significant …

… as a proxy for agricultural intensification and therefore habitat … driving butterfly declines or
alternatively it could provide the first useful quantifiable measure of agricultural intensification …

… In Europe, butterflies have declined over the last decades mainly because of the increasing
… the agricultural intensification occurred in lowlands areas. Drivers of butterfly decline were …

… agriculture as their primary driver. Butterfly diversity in southwest Germany began declining
… only for driving large numbers of species to extinction while at the same time threatening our …

… bats and butterflies as their mean population abundances decline … 5), resulting the observed
declines in weighted mean … activity using ultrasound recorder while driving at a constant low-…

… , we recorded butterflies along an intensification gradient ranging … the loss of butterflies due
to agricultural intensification at the … insect declines are widespread in agricultural landscapes, …

… drive these patterns, with butterflies generally declining at increasingly dry and hot sites but
increasing at relatively wet or cool sites. In contrast, landscape and butterfly trait … in butterfly …