TY - JOUR
KW - climate change
KW - Evolutionary Biology
KW - Biodiversity
KW - indicators
KW - Nature management
KW - Plant Sciences
KW - Population trends
KW - Transect counts
KW - Tree Biology
AU - van Swaay Chris A. M.
AU - Nowicki Piotr
AU - Settele Josef
AU - van Strien Arco J.
AB - Since the first Butterfly Monitoring Scheme in the UK started in the mid-1970s, butterfly monitoring in Europe has developed in more than ten European countries. These schemes are aimed to assess regional and national trends in butterfly abundance per species. We discuss strengths and weaknesses of methods used in these schemes and give examples of applications of the data. A new development is to establish supra-national trends per species and multispecies indicators. Such indicators enable to report against the target to halt biodiversity loss by 2010. Our preliminary European Grassland Butterfly Indicator shows a decline of 50% between 1990 and 2005. We expect to develop a Grassland Butterfly Indicator with an improved coverage across European countries. We see also good perspectives to develop a supra-national indicator for climate change as well as an indicator for woodland butterflies.
BT - Biodiversity and Conservation
DA - 2008/12/01
DB - link.springer.com
IS - 14
LA - en
N2 - Since the first Butterfly Monitoring Scheme in the UK started in the mid-1970s, butterfly monitoring in Europe has developed in more than ten European countries. These schemes are aimed to assess regional and national trends in butterfly abundance per species. We discuss strengths and weaknesses of methods used in these schemes and give examples of applications of the data. A new development is to establish supra-national trends per species and multispecies indicators. Such indicators enable to report against the target to halt biodiversity loss by 2010. Our preliminary European Grassland Butterfly Indicator shows a decline of 50% between 1990 and 2005. We expect to develop a Grassland Butterfly Indicator with an improved coverage across European countries. We see also good perspectives to develop a supra-national indicator for climate change as well as an indicator for woodland butterflies.
PY - 2008
SN - 0960-3115, 1572-9710
SP - 3455
EP - 3469
ST - Biodivers Conserv
T2 - Biodiversity and Conservation
TI - Butterfly monitoring in Europe: methods, applications and perspectives
UR - http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10531-008-9491-4
VL - 17
Y2 - 2013-07-15 14:45:45
ER -