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Publications : Welcome

2015-2018

Fox, R., Harrower, C.A., Bell, J.R., Shortall, C.R., Middlebrook, I. & Wilson, R.J. (2018) Insect population trends and the IUCN Red List process. Journal of Insect Conservation, DOI: 10.1007/s10841-018-0117-1

Suggitt, A.J., Wilson, R.J., Isaac, N.J.B., Beale, C.M., Auffret, A.G., August, T. et al. (2018). Extinction risk from climate change is reduced by microclimatic buffering. Nature Climate Change, 8, 713-717. DOI: 10.1038/s41558-018-0231-9

Donaldson, L., Wilson, R.J. & Maclean, I.M.D. (2017). Old concepts, new challenges: adapting landscape-scale conservation to the twenty-first century. Biodiversity and Conservation, 26, 527-552. DOI: 10.1007/s10531-016-1257-9

Hamston, T.J., Wilson, R.J., de Vere, N., Rich, T.C.G., Stevens, J.R. & Cresswell, J.E. (2017). Breeding system and spatial isolation from congeners strongly constrain seed set in an insect-pollinated apomictic tree: Sorbus subcuneata (Rosaceae). Scientific Reports, 7. DOI: 10.1038/srep45122

Maclean, I.M.D., Suggitt, A.J., Wilson, R.J., Duffy, J.P. & Bennie, J.J. (2017). Fine-scale climate change: modelling spatial variation in biologically meaningful rates of warming. Global Change Biology, 23, 256-268. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13343

Zografou, K., Wilson, R.J., Halley, J.M., Tzirkalli, E. & Kati, V. (2017). How are arthopod communities structured and why are they so diverse? Answers from Mediterranean mountains using hierarchical additive partitioning. Biodiversity and Conservation, 26, 1333-1351. DOI: 10.1007/s10531-017-1303-2

Donaldson, L., Woodhead, A.J., Wilson, R.J. & Maclean, I.M.D. (2016). Subsistence use of papyrus is compatible with wetland bird conservation. Biological Conservation, 201, 414-422. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2016.07.036

Fitzgerald, J.A., Jameson, H.M., Fowler, V.H.D., Bond, G.L., Bickley, L.K., Webster, T.M.U. et al. (2016). Hypoxia Suppressed Copper Toxicity during Early Development in Zebrafish Embryos in a Process Mediated by the Activation of the HIF Signaling Pathway. Environmental Science & Technology, 50, 4502-4512. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b01472

Gutiérrez, D., Vila, R. & Wilson, R.J. (2016). Asymmetric constraints on limits to species ranges influence consumer-resource richness over an environmental gradient. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 25, 1477-1488. DOI: 10.1111/geb.12510

Laing, L.V., Viana, J., Dempster, E.L., Trznadel, M., Trunkfield, L.A., Webster, T.M.U. et al. (2016). Bisphenol A causes reproductive toxicity, decreases dnmt1 transcription, and reduces global DNA methylation in breeding zebrafish (Danio rerio). Epigenetics, 11, 526-538. DOI: 10.1080/15592294.2016.1182272

Mosedale, J.R., Abernethy, K.E., Smart, R.E., Wilson, R.J. & Maclean, I.M.D. (2016). Climate change impacts and adaptive strategies: lessons from the grapevine. Global Change Biology, 22, 3814-3828. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13406

Gillingham, P.K., Bradbury, R.B., Roy, D.B., Anderson, B.J., Baxter, J.M., Bourn, N.A.D. et al. (2015). The effectiveness of protected areas in the conservation of species with changing geographical ranges. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 115, 707-717. DOI: 10.1111/bij.12506

Hodgson, J.A., Bennie, J.J., Dale, G., Longley, N., Wilson, R.J. & Thomas, C.D. (2015). Predicting microscale shifts in the distribution of the butterfly Plebejus argus at the northern edge of its range. Ecography, 38, 998-1005. DOI: 10.1111/ecog.00825

Maclean, I.M.D., Hopkins, J.J., Bennie, J., Lawson, C.R. & Wilson, R.J. (2015). Microclimates buffer the responses of plant communities to climate change. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 24, 1340-1350. DOI: 10.1111/geb.12359

Mosedale, J.R., Wilson, R.J. & Maclean, I.M.D. (2015). Climate Change and Crop Exposure to Adverse Weather: Changes to Frost Risk and Grapevine Flowering Conditions. PLoS One, 10. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0141218

Nieto-Sánchez, S., Gutiérrez, D. & Wilson, R.J. (2015). Long-term change and spatial variation in butterfly communities over an elevational gradient: driven by climate, buffered by habitat. Diversity and Distributions, 21, 950-961. DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12316

Suggitt, A.J., Jones, R.T., Caseldine, C.J., Huntley, B., Stewart, J.R., Brooks, S.J. et al. (2015). A meta-database of Holocene sediment cores for England. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 24, 743-747. DOI: 10.1007/s00334-015-0515-1

Suggitt, A.J., Wilson, R.J., August, T.A., Fox, R., Isaac, N.J.B., Macgregor, N.A. et al. (2015). Microclimate affects landscape level persistence in the British Lepidoptera. Journal of Insect Conservation, 19, 237-253. DOI: 10.1007/s10841-014-9749-y

Wilson, R.J., Bennie, J., Lawson, C.R., Pearson, D., Ortuzar-Ugarte, G. & Gutiérrez, D. (2015). Population turnover, habitat use and microclimate at the contracting range margin of a butterfly. Journal of Insect Conservation, 19, 205-216. DOI: 10.1007/s10841-014-9710-0

Wilson, R.J., Gutiérrez Illán, J., & Gutiérrez, D. (2015) Cambios experimentados por los lepidópteros de la Sierra de Guadarrama entre los periodos 1967-1973 y 2004-2005. Pp 185-197 in M.A. Zavala & A. Herrero (eds.) Impactos, Vulnerabilidad y Adaptación de los Bosques y la Biodiversidad de España frente al Cambio Climático Ministerio de Agricultura, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente, Madrid.

Zografou, K., Adamidis, G.C., Grill, A., Kati, V., Wilson, R.J. & Halley, J.M. (2015). Who flies first? - habitat-specific phenological shifts of butterflies and orthopterans in the light of climate change: a case study from the south-east Mediterranean. Ecological Entomology, 40, 562-574. DOI: 10.1111/een.12220

Publications : Publications

2010-2014

Bennie, J., Wilson, R.J., Maclean, I.M.D. & Suggitt, A.J. (2014). Seeing the woods for the trees - when is microclimate important in species distribution models? Global Change Biology, 20, 2699-2700. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12525

Gutiérrez, D. & Wilson, R.J. (2014). Climate conditions and resource availability drive return elevational migrations in a single-brooded insect. Oecologia, 175, 861-873. DOI: 10.1007/s00442-014-2952-4

Lawson, C.R., Bennie, J., Hodgson, J.A., Thomas, C.D. & Wilson, R.J. (2014). Topographic microclimates drive microhabitat associations at the range margin of a butterfly. Ecography, 37, 732-740. DOI: 10.1111/ecog.00535

Lawson, C.R., Bennie, J.J., Thomas, C.D., Hodgson, J.A. & Wilson, R.J. (2014). Active Management of Protected Areas Enhances Metapopulation Expansion Under Climate Change. Conservation Letters, 7, 111-118. DOI: 10.1111/conl.12036

Lawson, C.R., Hodgson, J.A., Wilson, R.J. & Richards, S.A. (2014). Prevalence, thresholds and the performance of presence-absence models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 5, 54-64. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.12123

Zografou, K., Kati, V., Grill, A., Wilson, R.J., Tzirkalli, E., Pamperis, L.N. et al. (2014). Signals of Climate Change in Butterfly Communities in a Mediterranean Protected Area. PLoS One, 9. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087245

Voskamp, A., Rode, E.J., Coudrat, C.N.Z., Wirdateti, Abinawanto, Wilson, R.J. et al. (2014). Modelling the habitat use and distribution of the threatened Javan slow loris Nycticebus javanicus. Endangered Species Research, 23, 277-286. DOI: 10.3354/esr00574

Bennie, J., Hodgson, J.A., Lawson, C.R., Holloway, C.T.R., Roy, D.B., Brereton, T. et al. (2013). Range expansion through fragmented landscapes under a variable climate. Ecology Letters, 16, 921-929. DOI: 10.1111/ele.12129

Gutiérrez, D., Harcourt, J., Diez, S.B., Gutiérrez Illán, J. & Wilson, R.J. (2013). Models of presence-absence estimate abundance as well as (or even better than) models of abundance: the case of the butterfly Parnassius apollo. Landscape Ecology, 28, 401-413. DOI: 10.1007/s10980-013-9847-3

Gutiérrez Illán, J., Gutiérrez, D., Diez, S.B. & Wilson, R.J. (2012). Elevational trends in butterfly phenology: implications for species responses to climate change. Ecological Entomology, 37, 134-144. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2012.01345.x

Lawson, C.R., Bennie, J.J., Thomas, C.D., Hodgson, J.A. & Wilson, R.J. (2012). Local and landscape management of an expanding range margin under climate change. Journal of Applied Ecology, 49, 552-561. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2011.02098.x

Maclean, I.M.D., Bennie, J.J., Scott, A.J. & Wilson, R.J. (2012). A high-resolution model of soil and surface water conditions. Ecological Modelling, 237, 109-119. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.03.029

Scott A., Maclean I.M.D. , Byfield A., Pay A.R. & Wilson R.J. (2012) Artificial disturbance promotes recovery of rare Mediterranean Temporary Pond plant species on the Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, England. Conservation Evidence, 9, 79-86.

Thomas, C.D., Gillingham, P.K., Bradbury, R.B., Roy, D.B., Anderson, B.J., Baxter, J.M. et al. (2012). Protected areas facilitate species' range expansions. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 109, 14063-14068. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1210251109

Maclean, I.M.D. & Wilson, R.J. (2011). Recent ecological responses to climate change support predictions of high extinction risk. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 108, 12337-12342. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1017352108

Maclean, I.M.D., Wilson, R.J. & Hassall, M. (2011). Predicting changes in the abundance of African wetland birds by incorporating abundance-occupancy relationships into habitat association models. Diversity and Distributions, 17, 480-490. DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00756.x

Wilson, R.J. & Maclean, I.M.D. (2011). Recent evidence for the climate change threat to Lepidoptera and other insects. Journal of Insect Conservation, 15, 259-268. DOI: 10.1007/s10841-010-9342-y

Wilson, R.J. & Roy, D.B. (2011). ECOLOGY Butterflies reset the calendar. Nature Climate Change, 1, 101-102. DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1087

Gutiérrez Illán, J., Gutiérrez, D. & Wilson, R.J. (2010). The contributions of topoclimate and land cover to species distributions and abundance: fine-resolution tests for a mountain butterfly fauna. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 19, 159-173. DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2009.00507.x

Gutiérrez Illán, J., Gutiérrez, D. & Wilson, R.J. (2010). Fine-scale determinants of butterfly species richness and composition in a mountain region. Journal of Biogeography, 37, 1706-1720. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02314.x

Wilson, R.J., Davies, Z.G. & Thomas, C.D. (2010). Linking habitat use to range expansion rates in fragmented landscapes: a metapopulation approach. Ecography, 33, 73-82. DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2009.06038.x

Wilson, R.J. & Gutiérrez, D. (2011) Effects of climate change on the elevational limits of species ranges. Pp 107-132 in E.A. Beever & J.L. Belant (eds.) Ecological Consequences of Climate Change: Mechanisms, Conservation and Management. Taylor & Francis (USA).

Publications : Publications

2005-2009

Ashton, S., Gutiérrez, D. & Wilson, R.J. (2009). Effects of temperature and elevation on habitat use by a rare mountain butterfly: implications for species responses to climate change. Ecological Entomology, 34, 437-446. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2008.01068.x

Wilson, R.J., Davies, Z.G. & Thomas, C.D. (2009). Modelling the effect of habitat fragmentation on range expansion in a butterfly. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 276, 1421-1427. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0724

Wilson, R.J. & Roy, D.B. (2009) Butterfly population structure and dynamics. Pp 81-96 in J. Settele, T. Shreeve, M. Konvicka & H. Van Dyck (eds.) The Ecology of Butterflies in Europe. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.535

Merrill, R.M., Gutiérrez, D., Lewis, O.T., Gutiérrez Illán, J., Diez, S.B. & Wilson, R.J. (2008). Combined effects of climate and biotic interactions on the elevational range of a phytophagous insect. Journal of Animal Ecology, 77, 145-155. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2007.01303.x

Thomas, C.D., Bulman, C.R. & Wilson, R.J. (2008). Where within a geographical range do species survive best? A matter of scale. Insect Conservation and Diversity, 1, 2-8. DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4598.2007.00001.x123

Bulman, C.R., Wilson, R.J., Holt, A.R., Bravo, L.G., Early, R.I., Warren, M.S. et al. (2007). Minimum viable metapopulation size, extinction debt, and the conservation of a declining species. Ecological Applications, 17, 1460-1473. DOI: 10.1890/06-1032.1

Dormann, C.F., McPherson, J.M., Araujo, M.B., Bivand, R., Bolliger, J., Carl, G. ... Wilson, R. (2007). Methods to account for spatial autocorrelation in the analysis of species distributional data: a review. Ecography, 30, 609-628. DOI: 10.1111/j.2007.0906-7590.05171.x

Wilson, R.J., Davies, Z.G., & Thomas, C.D. (2007) Insects and climate change: processes, patterns and implications for conservation. Pp 245-279 in A.J.A. Stewart, T.R. New & O.T. Lewis (eds.) Insect Conservation Biology CABI Publishing, Wallingford, UK.

Wilson, R.J., Gutiérrez, D., Gutiérrez Illán, J. & Monserrat, V.J. (2007). An elevational shift in butterfly species richness and composition accompanying recent climate change. Global Change Biology, 13, 1873-1887. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01418.x

Davies, Z.G., Wilson, R.J., Coles, S. & Thomas, C.D. (2006). Changing habitat associations of a thermally constrained species, the silver-spotted skipper butterfly, in response to climate warming. Journal of Animal Ecology, 75, 247-256. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2006.01044.x

Burke, S., Pullin, A.S., Wilson, R.J. & Thomas, C.D. (2005). Selection for discontinuous life-history traits along a continuous thermal gradient in the butterfly Aricia agestis. Ecological Entomology, 30, 613-619. DOI: 10.1111/j.0307-6946.2005.00741.x

Wilson, R.J., Gutiérrez, D., Gutiérrez lllán, J., Martinez, D., Agudo, R. & Monserrat, V.J. (2005). Changes to the elevational limits and extent of species ranges associated with climate change. Ecology Letters, 8, 1138-1146. DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00824.x

Davies, Z.G., Wilson, R.J., Brereton, T.M. & Thomas, C.D. (2005). The re-expansion and improving status of the silver-spotted skipper butterfly (Hesperia comma) in Britain: a metapopulation success story. Biological Conservation, 124, 189-198. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2005.01.029

Publications : Publications

1998-2004

Cabeza, M., Araujo, M.B., Wilson, R.J., Thomas, C.D., Cowley, M.J.R. & Moilanen, A. (2004). Combining probabilities of occurrence with spatial reserve design. Journal of Applied Ecology, 41, 252-262. DOI: 10.1111/j.0021-8901.2004.00905.x

Wilson, R.J., Thomas, C.D., Fox, R., Roy, D.B. & Kunin, W.E. (2004). Spatial patterns in species distributions reveal biodiversity change. Nature, 432, 393-396. DOI: 10.1038/nature03031

Taneyhill, D.E., Mallet, J.B., Wynne, I.R., Burke, A.S., Pullin, A.S., Wilson, R.J., Butlin, R.K., Hatcher, M.J., Shorrocks, B. & Thomas, C.D. (2002) Estimating gene flow in endemic butterfly races: the effect of metapopulation dynamics. Pp 3-25 in R.S. Hails, J.E. Beringer & H.C.J. Godfray (eds.) Genes in the Environment. Blackwell Science, Oxford.

Thomas, C.D., Wilson, R.J. & Lewis, O.T. (2002). Short-term studies underestimate 30-generation changes in a butterfly metapopulation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 269, 563-569. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1939

Wilson, R.J., Ellis, S., Baker, J.S., Lineham, M.E., Whitehead, R.W. & Thomas, C.D. (2002). Large-scale patterns of distribution and persistence at the range margins of a butterfly. Ecology, 83, 3357-3368. DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[3357:lspoda]2.0.co;2

Wilson, R.J. & Thomas, C.D. (2002). Dispersal and the spatial dynamics of butterfly populations. Pp 257-278 in J. M. Bullock, R.E. Kenward & R.S. Hails (eds.) Dispersal Ecology. Blackwell Science, Oxford.

Cowley, M.J.R., Thomas, C.D., Roy, D.B., Wilson, R.J., Leon-Cortes, J.L., Gutiérrez, D. et al. (2001). Density-distribution relationships in British butterflies. I. The effect of mobility and spatial scale. Journal of Animal Ecology, 70, 410-425. DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2656.2001.00508.x

Cowley, M.J.R., Thomas, C.D., Wilson, R.J., Leon-Cortes, J.L., Gutiérrez, D. & Bulman, C.R. (2001). Density-distribution relationships in British butterflies. II. An assessment of mechanisms. Journal of Animal Ecology, 70, 426-441. DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2656.2001.00509.x

Gutiérrez, D., Leon-Cortes, J.L., Menéndez, R., Wilson, R.J., Cowley, M.J.R. & Thomas, C.D. (2001). Metapopulations of four lepidopteran herbivores on a single host plant, Lotus corniculatus. Ecology, 82, 1371-1386. DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2001)082[1371:moflho]2.0.co;2

Thomas, C.D., Bodsworth, E.J., Wilson, R.J., Simmons, A.D., Davies, Z.G., Musche, M. et al. (2001). Ecological and evolutionary processes at expanding range margins. Nature, 411, 577-581. DOI: 10.1038/35079066

Cowley, M.J.R., Wilson, R.J., Leon-Cortes, J.L., Gutiérrez, D., Bulman, C.R. & Thomas, C.D. (2000). Habitat-based statistical models for predicting the spatial distribution of butterflies and day-flying moths in a fragmented landscape. Journal of Applied Ecology, 37, 60-72. DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2664.2000.00526.x

Lewis, O.T., Wilson, R.J. & Harper, M.C. (1998). Endemic butterflies on Grande Comore: habitat preferences and conservation priorities. Biological Conservation, 85, 113-121. DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3207(97)00136-5

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