Highlights•Strategies are required for conserving insect diversity into the future.•Insect
diversity is vast and largely unknown.•There are huge challenges, but also opportunities for …

As small poikilotherms, insects are largely dependent on their environment for
thermoregulation and so are particularly vulnerable to changing temperatures. Butterflies …

Understanding species' habitat preferences are crucial to predict organisms' responses to
the current climate crisis. In many insects, maternal habitat selection for oviposition …

Understanding the seasonal movements of migratory species underpins ecological studies.
Several hundred butterfly species show migratory behaviour, yet the spatial pattern of these …

Predictions derived from species distribution models (SDMs) are strongly influenced by the
spatial scale at which species and environmental data (eg climate) are gathered. SDMs of …

Low-elevation mountains represent unique model systems to study species endangered by
climate warming, such as subalpine and alpine species of butterflies. We aimed to test the …

Climate change represents a threat to narrow-ranged mountain species living in low-altitude
massifs. We studied the disjunct Apennine population of Lasiommata petropolitana …

Vulnerability of mountain ecosystems to climate change depends on the capacity of
topographic variation to provide heterogeneous microclimates and rates of climatic change …

Many species are shifting their ranges in response to the changing climate. In cases where
such shifts lead to the colonization of a new ecosystem, it is critical to establish how the …

Insect groups are declining worldwide; Lepidoptera are among the taxa most affected in
terrestrial ecosystems. The main drivers of these declines are a diverse set of factors relating …