Reports and articles

On this page, you can find reports and articles created by BCE or related to butterfly conservation considered important. 

• Does a short Pollard walk transect capture butterfly and bee diversity? A test to inform pollinator monitoring and community science initiatives Viliani et at., 2022
• Weather and butterfly responses: a framework for understanding population dynamics in terms of species’ life-cycles and extreme climatic events Ubach et al., 2022
• Developing a national indicator of functional connectivity Hordley et al., 2022
• Abandonment of cultural landscapes: butterfly communities track the advance of forest over grasslands Mora et al., 2022
• Habitat amount and distribution modify community dynamics under climate change Fourcade et al., 2021
• Integrating national Red Lists for prioritising conservation actions for European butterflies Maes et al., 2019
• Differences in the climatic debts of birds and butterflies at a continental scale Devictor et al., 2012

Basics of European Butterflies

• The State of the UK’s Butterflies 2022
• The decline of butterflies in Europe: Problems, significance, and possible solutions Warren et al., 2021
• An updated checklist of the European Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea) Wiemers et al., 2018
• European red list of butterflies Van Swaay et al., 2010
• Climatic risk atlas of European butterflies Settele et al., 2008

Management for butterflies

- Dos and Don'ts for butterflies of the Habitats Directive of the European Union. Van Swaay et al., 2012

The updated EU Grassland Butterfly Indicator 1990-2020 is the combined population trend of 17 selected grassland species monitored across Europe for a long period of time. The indicator has been calculated from population trends estimated for the whole European region and restricted to the 27 EU Member States. In the last ten years, the indicator shows a linear decline of 32% in the EU27 and 36% in Europe up to 2020 with the last update of the eBMS database. 

EU Grassland Butterfly Indicator 1990-2020

 All produced results during the European project ABLE between 2018-2020.

• Executive Summary (pdf in English)
• Report Task 1 - Butterfly Indicators (pdf in English)
• Report Task 2 - Network Development (pdf in English)
• Report Task 3 - Tools (pdf in English)
• ABLE Policy Brief (pdf in English), Resumen (Spanish), Sommario (Italian)

There are many different Butterfly Monitoring Schemes in Europe that generate frequently, in some cases annually, reports on the data collected on their BMS. Here you can find some of the reports produced recently:

Annual BMS Reports

Discover the different Newsletters produced on the European Butterfly Monitoring Scheme updating the news of new partners, new tools and functions to monitor butterflies and more:

eBMS Newsletters