Grassland insects face some of the most severe declines in species diversity and total
abundance, in part due to agriculture. Livestock grazing is the largest agricultural land use …

Twenty-nine butterfly species are listed on the Annexes of the Habitats Directive. To assist
everyone who wants or needs to take action for one of these species, we compiled an …

Understanding individual movements in heterogeneous environments is central to
predicting how landscape changes affect animal populations. An important but poorly …

As part of a major transformation of the EU agriculture in the last few decades, traditional
land-use types disappeared due to either intensification or abandonment. Grasslands are …

Erebia aethiops is an aberrant lowland representative of a predominately arctic and alpine
butterfly genus. We used behavioral records obtained during a mark-recapture study (MR) to …

Identifying the factors determining the distribution and abundance of species is a
fundamental question in population ecology. Based on habitat characteristics, we sought to …

Host ant use of Maculinea teleius was investigated in 17 Hungarian and three Transylvanian
(Romania) sites by opening Myrmica ant nests. A total of 856 nests of nine Myrmica species …

Semi-natural wet meadows are threatened by drainage, the abandonment of traditional
management and climate change. The large blue butterflies Maculinea teleius and M …

Simple Summary Maculinea butterflies are endangered social parasites of Myrmica ants. In
late summer, caterpillars abandon their foodplants and wait for a Myrmica worker to retrieve …

Because fens have undergone dramatic declines in recent decades, an important question
is which management regimes and habitat parameters are most effective in preserving fen …