Over the past 2 decades, digital photography has grown increasingly accessible. This has
ushered in a golden age of community science, where nonspecialists share natural history …

The study of global biodiversity will greatly benefit from access to comprehensive DNA
barcode libraries at continental scale, but such datasets are still very rare. Here, we …

Motivation Butterflies represent a model in biology and a flagship group for invertebrate
conservation. We provide four new resources for the Western Palaearctic butterflies:(1) an …

Warm-adapted species survived the cold stages of the past glacial-interglacial cycles in
southern European peninsulas and recolonized major parts of Central and Northern Europe …

Quaternary climate fluctuations can affect speciation in regional biodiversity assembly in two
non-mutually exclusive ways: a glacial species pump, where isolation in glacial refugia …

Climate change is causing shifts in the distribution of many species and populations
inhabiting mountain tops are particularly vulnerable to these threats because they are …

The interplay between geographic barriers and climatic oscillations over the past 2.6 million
years structured genetic variation at the continental scale. The genetic legacy of the …

Aim Biogeographical regionalization is scant for most insect groups due to shortfalls in
distribution and phylogenetic information, namely the Wallacean and Darwinian shortfalls …

Climate change has direct effects on aquatic systems where increased water temperature
leads to range shifts and changes in the distribution of aquatic organisms. The effects of …

Only three saproxylic species of Pyrochroinae (Coleoptera: Pyrochroidae) are distributed in
Europe, two of which belonging to Pyrochroa: P. coccinea and P. serraticornis. However, P …