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European Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (eBMS): network development. Technical report [PDF]

, 2020
1. The ABLE EU Pilot Project was initiated in 2018 to collate butterfly monitoring data across Europe, to facilitate the start of new schemes in the EU, and to develop indicators to help policy evaluation.
Monteiro, E., Faltynek Fric, Z., Lehner, D., Wynhoff, I., Pavlicko, A., Munguira, M.L., Collins, S., Sielezniew, M., Ozden, O., Sevilleja, C.G., Roy, D.B., Bourn, N., Dennis, E.B., Teixeira, S.M., Schmucki, R., Szabadfalvi, A., de Arce Crespo, J.I., Kolev, Z., Bonelli, S., Barea Azcon, J.M., Krenn, H., Pendl, M., Van Swaay, C.A.M., Settele, J., Warren, M.S., Sasic, M., Cassar, L.F., Rudisser, J., Tzirkalli, E., Dziekanska, I.   +29 more
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Conservation biology of the marsh fritillary butterfly Euphydryas aurinia [PDF]

, 2001
The conservation biology of Euphydryas aurinia was investigated, analysing its metapopulation dynamics, interactions with parasitoids and the efficacy of habitat restoration.
Bulman, Caroline Rose
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Butterfly indicators 1990-2018. Technical report [PDF]

, 2020
There is mounting evidence of widespread declines in the diversity and abundance of insects from across the globe (Sanchez-Bayo and Wyckhuys 2019, Seibold et al. 2019, van Klink et al. 2020, Wagner 2020). This gives a stark warning for the perilous state
Faltynek Fric, Z., Lang, A., Escobes, R., Fontaine, B., Pavlicko, A., Carlisle, B., Collins, S., Ozden, O., Rakosy, L., Sevilleja, C.G., Gracianteparaluceta, A., Roy, D.B., Verovnik, R., Dennis, E.B., Dopagne, C., Teixeira, S.M., Schmucki, R., Piqueray, J., Szabadfalvi, A., Kolev, Z., Stefanescu, C., Musche, M., Balalaikins, M., Svitra, G., Krenn, H., Prokofev, I., Komac, B., Van Swaay, C.A.M., Aghababyan, K., Paramo, F., Astrom, S., Monasterio, Y., Heliola, J., Middlebrook, I., Petterson, L.B., Sasic, M., Rudisser, J., Leopold, P., Tzirkalli, E., Fernandez-Garcia, J.M., Dziekanska, I., McGowan, D., Monteiro, E., Botham, M., Harrower, C., Khanamirian, G., Cancela, J.P., Kuhn, E., Wynhoff, I., Munguira, M.L., Sielezniew, M., Lysaght, L., Bourn, N., Bonelli, S., Harpke, A., Goloshchapova, S., Settele, J., Roth, T., Mestdagh, X., Ounap, E., Brereton, T., Feldman, R., Warren, M.S., Maes, D., Tiitsaar, A.   +64 more
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Butterfly fitness under changing food qualities [PDF]

, 2014
The present thesis investigates how different food qualities over the whole life cycle and across generations affect butterfly development and reproduction, and addresses the following main questions: (1) What effects have varying nitrogen ...
Cahenzli, Fabian
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Revisiting the flight dynamics of take-off of a butterfly: experiments and CFD simulations for a cabbage white butterfly

Biology Open, 2022
We conducted measurements of the taking-off motion of a butterfly (Pieris rapae) and numerical simulations using a computational model reflecting its motion.
Kosuke Suzuki, Masashi Nakamura, Masaya Kouji, Masato Yoshino   +3 more
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An observation on the fruit feeding behavior of butterflies in some areas of Bangladesh

Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2016
Very little information has been found about the behavior of fruit feeding butterflies in Bangladesh. So this was an attempt to know about the fruit feeding behavior of butterflies from different areas of Bangladesh.
Tahsinur Rahman Shihan
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Butterfly diversity (Lepidoptera: Rhophalocera) associated with nectar feeding on Ziziphus mauritiana Lamarck (Rosales: Rhamnaceae) flowers in Chuadanga, Bangladesh

Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2017
A study was conducted during the flowering season of Ziziphus mauritiana from September 2015 to October 2015 in Belgachi Railgate Para, Chuadanga, Bangladesh.
Tahsinur Rahman Shihan
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Applying computer vision to digitised natural history collections for climate change research: Temperature‐size responses in British butterflies

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
Natural history collections are invaluable resources for understanding biotic response to global change. Museums around the world are currently imaging specimens, capturing specimen data and making them freely available online.
Rebecca J. Wilson, Alexandre Fioravante deSiqueira, Stephen J. Brooks, Benjamin W. Price, Lea M. Simon, Stéfan J. van derWalt, Phillip B. Fenberg   +6 more
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Evaluating costs of heavy metal tolerance in a widely distributed, invasive butterfly

Evolutionary Applications, 2021
Organismal tolerance to environmental pollution is thought to be constrained by fitness costs, where variants with higher survival in polluted environments have lower performance in nonpolluted environments.
Alexander M. Shephard, Amod M. Zambre, Emilie C. Snell‐Rood   +2 more
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The EU Butterfly Indicator for Grassland species: 1990-2017. Technical report [PDF]

, 2019
The EU Grassland Butterfly Indicator is one of the indicators of the status of biodiversity in the European Union. It is an abundance indicator based on data recording the population trends of seventeen butterfly species in 16 (see below) EU countries ...
Botham, M., Harrower, C., Lang, A., Cancela, J.P., Escobes, R., Kuhn, E., Fontaine, B., Wynhoff, I., Munguira, M.L., Carlisle, B., Collins, S., Sevilleja, C., Gracianteparaluceta, A., Roy, D.B., Murray, T.E., Bourn, N., Verovnik, R., Dennis, E.B., Dopagne, C., Schmucki, R., Piqueray, J., Stefanescu, C., Chambers, P., Harpke, A., Musche, M., Balalaikins, M., Svitra, G., Komac, B., Van Swaay, C.A.M., Paramo, F., Settele, J., Mestdagh, X., Ounap, E., Monasterio, Y., Heliola, J., Middlebrook, I., Brereton, T., Feldman, R., Petterson, L.B., Warren, M.S., Maes, D., Fernandez-Garcia, J.M., Tiitsaar, A.   +42 more
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