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We looked at 130 species to see which will be the winners and losers from global warming; Butterflies are rather like Goldilocks, preferring conditions to be neither too hot nor too cold, but “just right”. Under climate change, the temperature at any given time of summer is, on average, getting warmer, leaving butterflies (and their nocturnal cousins, the moths) with the challenge of how to remain in their optimal temperature window. 
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Climate change is increasingly altering the composition of ecological communities, in combination with other environmental pressures such as high‐intensity land use. Pressures are expected...
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Par Callum Macgregor , Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of York
Lire : Macgregor, C.J., Williams, J.H., Bell, J.R. et al. Moth biomass increases and decreases over 50 years in Britain. Nat Ecol Evol (2019) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-1028-6
Voir aussi : Bucking the trend: the diversity of Anthropocene ‘winners’ among British moths Boyes, Douglas H. Fox, Richard Shortall, Chris R. Whittaker, Robert J. Frontiers of Biogeography
Volume 11, Issue 3 2019 https://doi.org/10.21425/F5FBG43862