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Reduced variability in range-edge butterfly populations over three decades of climate warming

  1. Tom H. Oliver1,*,
  2. David B. Roy1,
  3. Tom Brereton2,
  4. Jeremy A. Thomas3

Article first published online: 29 FEB 2012

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02659.x

Issue

Global Change Biology

Global Change Biology

Volume 18, Issue 5, pages 1531–1539, May 2012

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How to Cite

Oliver, T. H., Roy, D. B., Brereton, T. and Thomas, J. A. (2012), Reduced variability in range-edge butterfly populations over three decades of climate warming. Global Change Biology, 18: 1531–1539. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02659.x

Author Information

  1. 1

    NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK

  2. 2

    Butterfly Conservation, Wareham, Dorset, UK

  3. 3

    University of Oxford, Dept. Zoology, Oxford, UK

*Correspondence: Tom H. Oliver, tel. + 44 01491 692 314, fax + 44 01491 692 424, e-mail: toliver@ceh.ac.uk

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 9 APR 2012
  2. Article first published online: 29 FEB 2012
  3. Accepted manuscript online: 2 FEB 2012 07:45AM EST
  4. Manuscript Accepted: 26 NOV 2011
  5. Manuscript Received: 7 OCT 2011

Funded by

  • the Countryside Council for Wales, Defra, the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Forestry Commission, Natural England, the Natural Environment Research Council, the Northern Ireland Environment Agency and Scottish Natural Heritage.
  • CLIMIT (Climit Change Impacts on Insects and their Mitigation)
  • DLR-BMBF (Germany)
  • NERC and DEFRA (UK)
  • ANR (France)
  • Formas (Sweden)
  • Swedish EPA (Sweden)

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gcb2659-sup-0001-FigS1.docWord document61KFigure S1. Mean seasonal temperatures 1976-2009 from the Central England Temperature Series.
gcb2659-sup-0002-TableS1.docWord document32KTable S1. Mean seasonal temperatures (± SE) in the two recording periods.
gcb2659-sup-0003-TableS2.docWord document57KTable S2. Coefficients for predictors of population variability with log mean abundance included as a control variable.
gcb2659-sup-0004-TableS3.docWord document73KTable S3. Species relationships between site northing (km) and recording period on population variability (measured using CV).
gcb2659-sup-0005-TableS4.docWord document72KTable S4. Species relationships between site northing (km) and recording period on population variability (measured using SD).

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