Reports and articles

On this page, you can find reports and articles created by BCE or related to butterfly conservation considered important. 

• Does a short Pollard walk transect capture butterfly and bee diversity? A test to inform pollinator monitoring and community science initiatives Viliani et at., 2022
• Weather and butterfly responses: a framework for understanding population dynamics in terms of species’ life-cycles and extreme climatic events Ubach et al., 2022
• Developing a national indicator of functional connectivity Hordley et al., 2022
• Abandonment of cultural landscapes: butterfly communities track the advance of forest over grasslands Mora et al., 2022
• Habitat amount and distribution modify community dynamics under climate change Fourcade et al., 2021
• Integrating national Red Lists for prioritising conservation actions for European butterflies Maes et al., 2019
• Differences in the climatic debts of birds and butterflies at a continental scale Devictor et al., 2012

Basics of European Butterflies

• The decline of butterflies in Europe: Problems, significance, and possible solutions Warren et al., 2021
• An updated checklist of the European Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea) Wiemers et al., 2018
• European red list of butterflies Van Swaay et al., 2010
• Climatic risk atlas of European butterflies Settele et al., 2008

Management for butterflies

- Dos and Don'ts for butterflies of the Habitats Directive of the European Union. Van Swaay et al., 2012

The updated EU Butterfly Indicator for Grassland species, 1990-2017. We produced a technical report to describe the indicator, it represents a major update on previous versions, through the incorporation of more and expanded datasets, together with new analysis techniques. It is the first major output of the Assessing ButterfLies in Europe (ABLE) project. This would not have been possible without the effort of all the collaborators, national schemes and volunteers that provide the data. Our appreciation to all of them

EU Butterfly Grassland Species

 All produced results during the European project ABLE between 2018-2020.

• Executive Summary (pdf in English)
• Report Task 1 - Butterfly Indicators (pdf in English)
• Report Task 2 - Network Development (pdf in English)
• Report Task 3 - Tools (pdf in English)
• ABLE Policy Brief (pdf in English), Resumen (Spanish), Sommario (Italian)

There are many different Butterfly Monitoring Schemes in Europe that generate frequently, in some cases annually, reports on the data collected on their BMS. Here you can find some of the reports produced recently:

Annual BMS Reports

Discover the different Newsletters produced on the European Butterfly Monitoring Scheme updating the news of new partners, new tools and functions to monitor butterflies and more:

eBMS Newsletters