Accommodating climate change contingencies in conservation strategy

L Gillson, TP Dawson, S Jack, MA McGeoch - Trends in Ecology & …, 2013 - cell.com
Species ranges are seldom at equilibrium with climate, because several interacting factors
determine distribution, including demographic processes, dispersal, land use, disturbance …

Facilitating climate‐change‐induced range shifts across continental land‐use barriers

CM Robillard, LE Coristine, RN Soares… - Conservation …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Climate changes impose requirements for many species to shift their ranges to remain within
environmentally tolerable areas, but near‐continuous regions of intense human land use …

Butterfly abundance is determined by food availability and is mediated by species traits

RJ Curtis, TM Brereton, RLH Dennis… - Journal of Applied …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the drivers of population abundance across species and sites is crucial for
effective conservation management. At present, we lack a framework for predicting which …

New concepts, models, and assessments of climate-wise connectivity

ATH Keeley, DD Ackerly, DR Cameron… - Environmental …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Empirical studies and habitat suitability modeling project significant shifts in species
distributions in response to climate change. Because habitat fragmentation can impede …

Defining and delivering resilient ecological networks: Nature conservation in England

NJB Isaac, PNM Brotherton, JM Bullock… - Journal of Applied …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Planning for nature conservation has increasingly emphasised the concepts of resilience
and spatial networks. Although the importance of habitat networks for individual species is …

Large extents of intensive land use limit community reorganization during climate warming

TH Oliver, S Gillings, JW Pearce‐Higgins… - Global change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is increasingly altering the composition of ecological communities, in
combination with other environmental pressures such as high‐intensity land use. Pressures …

Range expansion through fragmented landscapes under a variable climate

J Bennie, JA Hodgson, CR Lawson… - Ecology …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological responses to climate change may depend on complex patterns of variability in
weather and local microclimate that overlay global increases in mean temperature. Here, we …

The effectiveness of UK protected areas in preventing local extinctions

AS Gardner, DJ Baker, JR Mosedale… - Conservation …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Protected areas (PAs) are a core component in global efforts to prevent further declines in
biodiversity. We examine whether the United Kingdom's PA portfolio has reduced local …

Old concepts, new challenges: adapting landscape-scale conservation to the twenty-first century

L Donaldson, RJ Wilson, IMD Maclean - Biodiversity and conservation, 2017 - Springer
Landscape-scale approaches to conservation stem largely from the classic ideas of reserve
design: encouraging bigger and more sites, enhancing connectivity among sites, and …

Thermoregulation and microhabitat use in mountain butterflies of the genus Erebia: importance of fine-scale habitat heterogeneity

I Kleckova, M Konvicka, J Klecka - Journal of Thermal Biology, 2014 - Elsevier
Mountain butterflies have evolved efficient thermoregulation strategies enabling their
survival in marginal conditions with short flight season and unstable weather. Understanding …