Many species are predicted to shift their ranges to higher latitudes and altitudes in response to climate warming. This study presents evidence for 37 species of nonmigratory British dragonflies and damselflies shifting northwards at their range margins over the past 40 years, seemingly as a result of climate change. This response by an exemplar group of insects associated with fresh water, parallels polewards range changes observed in terrestrial invertebrates and other taxa.
BT - Global Change Biology DA - 2005 DB - Wiley Online Library IS - 3 LA - en N2 -Many species are predicted to shift their ranges to higher latitudes and altitudes in response to climate warming. This study presents evidence for 37 species of nonmigratory British dragonflies and damselflies shifting northwards at their range margins over the past 40 years, seemingly as a result of climate change. This response by an exemplar group of insects associated with fresh water, parallels polewards range changes observed in terrestrial invertebrates and other taxa.
PY - 2005 SN - 1365-2486 SP - 502 EP - 506 T2 - Global Change Biology TI - A northward shift of range margins in British Odonata UR - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2005.00904.x/abstract VL - 11 Y2 - 2013-07-15 14:14:53 ER -