A northward shift of range margins in British Odonata

  1. Rachael Hickling1,2,
  2. David B. Roy1,
  3. Jane K. Hill2,
  4. Chris D. Thomas2

Article first published online: 13 JAN 2005

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2005.00904.x

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Global Change Biology

Global Change Biology

Volume 11, Issue 3, pages 502–506, March 2005

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Hickling, R., Roy, D. B., Hill, J. K. and Thomas, C. D. (2005), A northward shift of range margins in British Odonata. Global Change Biology, 11: 502–506. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2005.00904.x

Author Information

  1. 1

    NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Monks Wood, Abbots Ripton, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire PE28 2LS, UK,

  2. 2

    Department of Biology, PO Box 373, University of York, York YO10 5YW, UK

* Rachael Hickling, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology: Monks Wood, Abbots Ripton, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire PE28 2LS, UK, e-mail: rhic@ceh.ac.uk

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 13 JAN 2005
  2. Article first published online: 13 JAN 2005
  3. Received 22 April 2004; revised version received 7 September 2004 and accepted 11 October 2004

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Keywords:

  • climate change;
  • dragonflies;
  • range expansion

Abstract

Many species are predicted to shift their ranges to higher latitudes and altitudes in response to climate warming. This study presents evidence for 37 species of nonmigratory British dragonflies and damselflies shifting northwards at their range margins over the past 40 years, seemingly as a result of climate change. This response by an exemplar group of insects associated with fresh water, parallels polewards range changes observed in terrestrial invertebrates and other taxa.

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