Poleward shifts in geographical ranges of butterfly species associated with regional warming (2024)

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We thank the huge number of amateur lepidopterists throughout Europe who have collected most of the data. Data sets are from private collectors' records, regional lists and publications, the Swedish Museum of Natural History, the Lepidopterological Society of Sweden, the Natural History Museum, London (BMNH), the Museum of Zoology of Barcelona, Societat Catalana de Lepidopterologia and Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (Departament de Medi Ambient, Generalitat de Catalunya), Biological Records Centre (ITE, Monks Wood, UK), Butterfly Conservation (UK), Estonian Naturalists' Society, Lepidopterological Society of Finland, and Finnish Museum of Natural History. This project was facilitated by the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, P. R. Ackery, D. Blakeley and M. C. Singer. We thank A. N. Cohen, T. Lewinsohn, F. Micheli, W. Porter, J. Roughgarden, M. C. Singer, F.Wagner, R. I. Vane-Wright and M. Willig for comments on the manuscript.

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  1. National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, 735 State Street, Suite 300, Santa Barbara, 93101, California, USA

    Camille Parmesan

  2. Evolutionary Biology Centre, Section of Zoological Ecology, Uppsala University, Norbyvgen 18 D, S-752 36, Uppsala, Sweden

    Nils Ryrholm

  3. Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, Can Liro, 08458 Sant Pere de Vilamajor, Barcelona, Spain

    Constantí Stefanescu

  4. Department of Biological Sciences, Environmental Research Centre, University of Durham, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK

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  5. Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation, School of Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK

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  6. Laboratoire de Systématique Évolutive, Université de Provence, 3 place Victor Hugo, Marseille, 13331 Cedex 3, France

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  7. Division of Entomology, Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 17, Helsinki, FIN-00014, Finland

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  8. Institute of Zoology and Botany, Estonian Agricultural University, Riia 181, EE-51014, Tartu, Estonia

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  9. Biogeography and Conservation Laboratory, The Natural History Museum (BMNH), London, SW7 5BD, UK

    W. John Tennent

  10. Furzebrook Research Station, Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Wareham, BH20 5AS, Dorset, UK

    Jeremy A. Thomas

  11. Butterfly Conservation, P.O. Box 444, Wareham, BH20 5YA, Dorset, UK

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Parmesan, C., Ryrholm, N., Stefanescu, C. et al. Poleward shifts in geographical ranges of butterfly species associated with regional warming. Nature 399, 579–583 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/21181

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Poleward shifts in geographical ranges of butterfly species associated with regional warming (2024)

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