The effect of temperature and habitat quality on abundance of the Glanville fritillary on the Isle of Wight: implications for conservation management in a warming climate

Curtis, Robin; Isaac, Nick J. B.

doi:10.1007/s10841-014-9738-1

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“…) and several studies, particularly on thermophilous insects, demonstrate the importance of these variations in microclimate in determining distribution and abundance (Thomas ). For example, for the Glanville fritillary butterfly, the availability of suitable microclimates (as determined by the successional stage of vegetation) is almost twice as strong a predictor of butterfly abundance as regional air temperature (Curtis & Isaac ), probably because species can change habitat association in response to ambient temperatures (Suggitt et al . ).…”

Section: Management To Offset the Effects Of Temperature Changementioning

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Using in situ management to conserve biodiversity under climate change

Greenwood

Mossman

Suggitt

et al. 2016

Journal of Applied Ecology

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Summary Successful conservation will increasingly depend on our ability to help species cope with climate change. While there has been much attention on accommodating or assisting range shifts, less has been given to the alternative strategy of helping species survive climate change through in situ management.Here we provide a synthesis of published evidence examining whether habitat management can be used to offset the adverse impacts on biodiversity of changes in temperature, water availability and sea‐level rise. Our focus is on practical methods whereby the local environmental conditions experienced by organisms can be made more suitable.Many studies suggest that manipulating vegetation structure can alter the temperature and moisture conditions experienced by organisms, and several demonstrate that these altered conditions benefit species as regional climatic conditions become unsuitable. The effects of topography on local climatic conditions are even better understood, but the alteration of topography as a climate adaptation tool is not ingrained in conservation practice. Trials of topographic alteration in the field should therefore be a priority for future research.Coastal systems have the natural capacity to keep pace with climate change, but require sufficient sediment supplies and space for landward migration to do so. There is an extensive literature on managed realignment. While the underlying rationale is simple, successful implementation requires careful consideration of elevation and past land use. Even with careful management, restored habitats may not attain the physical and biological attributes of natural habitats. Synthesis and applications. The recent literature provides a compelling case that some of the adverse effects of climate change can be offset by appropriate management. However, much of the evidence for this is indirect and too few studies provide empirical tests of the long‐term effectiveness of these management interventions. It is clear from the existing evidence that some techniques have a higher risk of failure or unexpected outcomes than others and managers will need to make careful choices about which to implement. We have assessed the strength of evidence of these approaches in order to demonstrate to conservation professionals the risks involved.

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Section: Management To Offset the Effects Of Temperature Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Using in situ management to conserve biodiversity under climate change

Greenwood

Mossman

Suggitt

et al. 2016

Journal of Applied Ecology

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“…Adult females select hostplants that provide the warmest microhabitats (Thomas et al 2001;Curtis & Isaac 2014), in order to maximise thermoregulation and metabolic efficiency, thus expediting development time (Bryant et al 2002). Furthermore, fast larval development may also be important Microclimate is partly determined by ambient temperature (i.e.…”

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“…In years when June is relatively cold, only a small subset of plantains are used for oviposition, but in warmer years the females will lay eggs on plants on cooler aspects (Davies et al 2006) and slopes (Weiss et al 1988). This leads to a strong correlation between June temperature and the number of webs the following March (Curtis & Isaac 2014). The larvae are voracious feeders in the final instars, at which stage they are large enough to individually thermoregulate and thus feed without the need for gregarious basking.…”

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“…The availability of Plantago lanceolata, the hostplant, in this suitable condition is a convenient measure of habitat quality that explains much of the variation in occupancy and abundance between sites (Thomas et al 2001). Within sites, both habitat quality and spring temperature are strongly correlated with population dynamics, with dramatic population increases in warm years corresponding with a good supply of plantains in suitable condition (Curtis & Isaac 2014).…”

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The Rise and Demise of the Glanville fritillary on the Isle of Wight

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“…First, ectothermic species for which the UK is the northern limit of their distributions tend to be restricted to the warmest micro‐climates. Soil surface temperatures in early successional habitats are often 5–8 °C warmer than the micro‐climates that surround the same resources growing in more shaded vegetation (Thomas, , , ; Curtis & Isaac, ). For example, under current climates the optimum habitat of the thermophilous ant Myrmica sabuleti in the UK is a grassland or heathland sward with a mean height in spring and autumn of 1.5–2.5 cm tall, whereas its preferred niche shifts to 5–8 cm tall turf under the warmer climates of south‐east Sweden, and to 30–45 cm tall vegetation in central southern France where the local climate is 2–3 °C hotter still (Thomas et al ., ).…”

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Recent trends in UK insects that inhabit early successional stages of ecosystems

Thomas

Edwards

Simcox

et al. 2015

Biol J Linn Soc Lond

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Improved recording of less popular groups, combined with new statistical approaches that compensate for datasets that were hitherto too patchy for quantitative analysis, now make it possible to compare recent trends in the status of UK invertebrates other than butterflies. Using BRC datasets, we analysed changes in status between 1992 and 2012 for those invertebrates whose young stages exploit early seral stages within woodland, lowland heath and semi‐natural grassland ecosystems, a habitat type that had declined during the 3 decades previous to 1990 alongside a disproportionally high number of Red Data Book species that were dependent on it. Two clear patterns emerged from a meta‐analysis involving 299 classifiable species belonging to ten invertebrate taxa: (i) during the past 2 decades, most early seral species that are living near their northern climatic limits in the UK have increased relative to the more widespread members of these guilds whose distributions were not governed by a need for a warm micro‐climate; and (ii) independent of climatic constraints, species that are restricted to the early stages of woodland regeneration have fared considerably less well than those breeding in the early seral stages of grasslands or, especially, heathland. The first trend is consistent with predicted benefits for northern edge‐of‐range species as a result of climate warming in recent decades. The second is consistent with our new assessment of the availability of early successional stages in these three ecosystems since c. 1990. Whereas the proportion and continuity of early seral patches has greatly increased within most semi‐natural grasslands and lowland heaths, thanks respectively to agri‐environmental schemes and conservation management, the representation of fresh clearings has continued to dwindle within UK woodlands, whose floors are increasingly shaded and ill‐suited for this important guild of invertebrates. © 2015 The Linnean Society of London, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2015, ●●, ●●–●●.

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The effect of temperature and habitat quality on abundance of the Glanville fritillary on the Isle of Wight: implications for conservation management in a warming climate

Cited by 16 publications

References 71 publications

Using in situ management to conserve biodiversity under climate change

Using in situ management to conserve biodiversity under climate change

The Rise and Demise of the Glanville fritillary on the Isle of Wight

Recent trends in UK insects that inhabit early successional stages of ecosystems

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