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F3.1E Temperate and Submediterranean Thorn Scrub
European Red List of Habitats - Heathland Habitat Group F3.1e Temperate and submediterranean thorn scrub Summary This habitat comprises inland scrub dominated by thorny shrubs and small trees occurring throughout the temperate and submediterranean lowlands and foothills of Europe, more locally in dry and rocky mountain localities. It is found mostly on dry to mesic, well-drained, relatively base-rich and poor to moderately nutrient-rich soils and is generally a secondary vegetation type, a replacement for or successional stage on the way to mesic broadleaved forests. Typical of forest edges and clearings, abandoned pastures and more or less permanent features like hedgerows, it provides food and shelter for invertebrates, small mammals and birds. Increasing in many places as a result of abandonment of traditional land use, it is itself seen as a threat to species-rich grasslands and progresses, without interruption, to forest. Synthesis The quantitative data lead to the overall conclusion of Least Concern (LC) for the EU28 and the EU28+, for the criteria relating to trends in quality and trends in quantity, even though there is an overal negative trend in quality in most of the countries. In the north-west of the range the habitat is more threatened than in the more continental and submediterranean regions. Overall Category & Criteria EU 28 EU 28+ Red List Category Red List Criteria Red List Category Red List Criteria Least Concern - Least Concern - Sub-habitat types that may require further examination For Northwestern Europe a semi-natural subhabitat 'hedge rows' may be distinguished and assessed separately, as the data shows that the thorn scrub is much more threatened in this Atlantic part of Europe than elsewhere. -
NEWSLETTER Issue 4
NEWSLETTER Issue 4 October 2008 CONTENTS Page Chairman’s Introduction 1&2 Contact Details / Dates for your Diary / EIG Website 3 A Code of Practice for Butterfly Recording and Photography in Europe 4&5 A List of European Butterflies – A Role for EIG 6,7&8 Mount Chelmos, Greece 2008 Visit 9&10 Discovering Butterflies in Turkey’s Kaçkar Mountains 11&12 EIG Surveys in Hungary May – June 2008 13,14&15 Efforts for the Conservation of the Scarce Heath in Bavaria 16,17&18 Jardins de Proserpine 19 Spring into the Algarve 20&21 INTRODUCTION EIG now has 147 members and has had a successful year. In this Newsletter there are two reports of successful trips by EIG members to Mount Chelmos in Greece (Page 9 & 10) and to Hungary (Page 11,12 & 13). These activities are beginning to influence local National Parks and it was encouraging to hear that grazing has resumed in the Latrany Valley in Hungary something that the West Midlands group that went to Hungary in 2006 recommended. It was this group that formed EIG. We are able to organize activities in Europe only if we don’t fall foul of the 1991 EU Travel Directive and the 1993 EU Package Travel Directive. This means for all EIG trips we have to either use a travel company such as Ecotours or book our own flights and accommodation as we did in Greece or to travel independently and meet up at the arranged site as we did in the Ecrins last year. There is however an insurance issue outstanding, which would cover BC from, claims from anyone participating in the same way as they are covered by BC’s insurance for a field event or work party in the UK. -
Révision Taxinomique Et Nomenclaturale Des Rhopalocera Et Des Zygaenidae De France Métropolitaine
Direction de la Recherche, de l’Expertise et de la Valorisation Direction Déléguée au Développement Durable, à la Conservation de la Nature et à l’Expertise Service du Patrimoine Naturel Dupont P, Luquet G. Chr., Demerges D., Drouet E. Révision taxinomique et nomenclaturale des Rhopalocera et des Zygaenidae de France métropolitaine. Conséquences sur l’acquisition et la gestion des données d’inventaire. Rapport SPN 2013 - 19 (Septembre 2013) Dupont (Pascal), Demerges (David), Drouet (Eric) et Luquet (Gérard Chr.). 2013. Révision systématique, taxinomique et nomenclaturale des Rhopalocera et des Zygaenidae de France métropolitaine. Conséquences sur l’acquisition et la gestion des données d’inventaire. Rapport MMNHN-SPN 2013 - 19, 201 p. Résumé : Les études de phylogénie moléculaire sur les Lépidoptères Rhopalocères et Zygènes sont de plus en plus nombreuses ces dernières années modifiant la systématique et la taxinomie de ces deux groupes. Une mise à jour complète est réalisée dans ce travail. Un cadre décisionnel a été élaboré pour les niveaux spécifiques et infra-spécifique avec une approche intégrative de la taxinomie. Ce cadre intégre notamment un aspect biogéographique en tenant compte des zones-refuges potentielles pour les espèces au cours du dernier maximum glaciaire. Cette démarche permet d’avoir une approche homogène pour le classement des taxa aux niveaux spécifiques et infra-spécifiques. Les conséquences pour l’acquisition des données dans le cadre d’un inventaire national sont développées. Summary : Studies on molecular phylogenies of Butterflies and Burnets have been increasingly frequent in the recent years, changing the systematics and taxonomy of these two groups. A full update has been performed in this work. -
Rote Liste Der Tagfalter Und Widderchen
2014 > Umwelt-Vollzug > Rote Listen / Artenmanagement > Rote Liste der Tagfalter und Widderchen Papilionoidea, Hesperioidea und Zygaenidae. Gefährdete Arten der Schweiz, Stand 2012 > Umwelt-Vollzug > Rote Listen / Artenmanagement > Rote Liste der Tagfalter und Widderchen Papilionoidea, Hesperioidea und Zygaenidae. Gefährdete Arten der Schweiz, Stand 2012 Herausgegeben von Bundesamt für Umwelt BAFU und Schweizer Zentrum für die Kartografie der Fauna SZKF/CSCF Bern, 2014 Rechtlicher Stellenwert dieser Publikation Impressum Rote Liste des BAFU im Sinne von Artikel 14 Absatz 3 der Verordnung Herausgeber vom 16. Januar 1991 über den Natur- und Heimatschutz (NHV; Bundesamt für Umwelt (BAFU) des Eidg. Departements für Umwelt, SR 451.1) www.admin.ch/ch/d/sr/45.html Verkehr, Energie und Kommunikation (UVEK), Bern. Schweizerisches Zentrum für die Kartografie der Fauna (SZKF/CSCF), Diese Publikation ist eine Vollzugshilfe des BAFU als Aufsichtsbehörde Neuenburg. und richtet sich primär an die Vollzugsbehörden. Sie konkretisiert unbestimmte Rechtsbegriffe von Gesetzen und Verordnungen und soll Autoren eine einheitliche Vollzugspraxis fördern. Sie dient den Vollzugsbehör- Emmanuel Wermeille, Yannick Chittaro und Yves Gonseth den insbesondere dazu, zu beurteilen, ob Biotope als schützenswert in Zusammenarbeit mit Stefan Birrer, Goran Dušej, Raymond Guenin, zu bezeichnen sind (Art. 14 Abs. 3 Bst. d NHV). Bernhard Jost, Nicola Patocchi, Jerôme Pellet, Jürg Schmid, Peter Sonderegger, Peter Weidmann, Hans-Peter Wymann und Heiner Ziegler. Begleitung BAFU Francis Cordillot, Abteilung Arten, Ökosysteme, Landschaften Zitierung Wermeille E., Chittaro Y., Gonseth Y. 2014: Rote Liste Tagfalter und Widderchen. Gefährdete Arten der Schweiz, Stand 2012. Bundesamt für Umwelt, Bern, und Schweizer Zentrum für die Kartografie der Fauna, Neuenburg. Umwelt-Vollzug Nr. 1403: 97 S. -
Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea) of the Kampinos National Park and Its Buffer Zone
Fr a g m e n t a Fa u n ist ic a 51 (2): 107-118, 2008 PL ISSN 0015-9301 O M u seu m a n d I n s t i t u t e o f Z o o l o g y PAS Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea) of the Kampinos National Park and its buffer zone Izabela DZIEKAŃSKA* and M arcin SlELEZNlEW** * Department o f Applied Entomology, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Nowoursynowska 159, 02-776, Warszawa, Poland; e-mail: e-mail: [email protected] **Department o f Invertebrate Zoology, Institute o f Biology, University o f Białystok, Świerkowa 2OB, 15-950 Białystok, Poland; e-mail: [email protected] Abstract: Kampinos National Park is the second largest protected area in Poland and therefore a potentially important stronghold for biodiversity in the Mazovia region. However it has been abandoned as an area of lepidopterological studies for a long time. A total number of 80 butterfly species were recorded during inventory studies (2005-2008), which proved the occurrence of 80 species (81.6% of species recorded in the Mazovia voivodeship and about half of Polish fauna), including 7 from the European Red Data Book and 15 from the national red list (8 protected by law). Several xerothermophilous species have probably become extinct in the last few decadesColias ( myrmidone, Pseudophilotes vicrama, Melitaea aurelia, Hipparchia statilinus, H. alcyone), or are endangered in the KNP and in the region (e.g. Maculinea arion, Melitaea didyma), due to afforestation and spontaneous succession. Higrophilous butterflies have generally suffered less from recent changes in land use, but action to stop the deterioration of their habitats is urgently needed. -
Aricia Eumedon (Esper, 1780) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) a Bükk-Fennsíkon. Reliktum, Vagy Jelenkori Terjedés?
Safian_golyaorrboglarka.qxd 2009.01.12. 13:15 Page 15 FOLIA HISTORICO NATURALIA MUSEI MATRAENSIS 2008 32: 15–18 Gólyaorr-boglárka – Aricia eumedon (Esper, 1780) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) a Bükk-fennsíkon. Reliktum, vagy jelenkori terjedés? SÁFIÁN SZABOLCS, ROB DE JONG & ILONCZAI ZOLTÁN ABSTRACT: (Geranium Argus – Aricia eumedon (Esper, 1780) from the Bükk Plateau, Bükk Hills. Relict or present day dispersion?) Geranium Argus – Aricia eumedon (Esper, 1780) was found as new to the Bükk Plateau (Bükk Hills) after a 100 years intensive collecting and several systematic surveys of the butterfly fauna. The sudden appearance of the species raises the question, whether the colony has established itself due to present time dispersion or it is a long ago isolated relict population. Selective habitat management and monitoring of the population density is recommended by the authors, since the species has Critically Endangered – CR status according to the Hungarian RDB. Fencing of foodplant stands is also recommended, because the meadows of the plateau are managed against natural succession by grazing of horses, quite intensively. Other populations may be present in other parts of the Bükk Hills. Bevezetés A Bükk-hegység, és a hegység területén belül a szûkebb értelemben vett Bükk-fennsík hegyvidéki rétjeinek (Nagy-mezõ, Zsidó-rét, Hármaskapu) karsztos jellegénél fogva diverz élõvilága már korán felkeltette a lepkegyûjtõk érdeklõdését, ennek megfelelõen a Bükk-fennsík lepke-faunisztikai szempontból nézve hazánk egyik legkutatottabb területe. Szórványadatok már a XX. elejétõl kezdve találhatók a Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum, Állattárának lepkegyûjteményében, a század második felétõl pedig számos faunisztikai munka jelent meg a Bükk területérõl (BALOGH 1967, GYULAI 1976, 1977, 1992, JABLONKAY 1964, 1974, KOVÁCS 1953, 1956), amelyek VOJNITS et al. -
Butterflies of Hungary
Butterflies of Hungary Naturetrek Tour Report 16 - 23 June 2009 Great Banded Grayling Purple-edged Copper Sloe Hairstreak Scarce Copper Report compiled by Vic Tucker Images by kind courtesy of Denise Whittle Naturetrek Cheriton Mill Cheriton Alresford Hampshire SO24 England 0NG T: +44 (0)1962 733051 F: +44 (0)1962 736426 E: [email protected] W: www.naturetrek.co.uk Tour Report Butterflies of Hungary Tour Leaders: Vic Tucker (Naturetrek Tour Leader & Naturalist) Gerard Gorman (Local Guide, Naturalist & Tour Manager) Participants: John Wyatt Christine Dennis Mike Carlill Peter Bruce-Jones Mark Bunch Denise Whittle Brian Smith Margaret Hairby Keith White Richard Dyer Diana Dyer Jacqueline Dunn Mary Peacock Bob Lugg Day 1 Tuesday 16th June The group was met at Budapest’s Ferihgy Airport by Gerard Gorman, our very experienced local guide who has guided many of Naturetrek's bird, butterfly and natural history tours in C & E Europe. The plane arrived early and as everyone was present, we soon had everyone aboard the minibus. Once we were assembled, our driver, Attila soon had our luggage stowed on the vehicle. In addition to driving was also responsible for handing out copious cold drinks and setting up the picnic lunches each day. Nothing was too much trouble for him. Our only other stop was for refreshments etc. overlooking the Matra Hills. Providing some interest here were several very confiding Crested Larks, Common Buzzards, Red-backed Shrikes and an impressive Eastern Imperial Eagle. We continued our journey to the the northeastern corner of Hungary. Our early arrival at our hotel in Aggtelek allowed time to freshen up and relax following our early morning flight and onward travel, prior to our most welcome evening meal. -
The Status and Distribution of Mediterranean Butterflies
About IUCN IUCN is a membership Union composed of both government and civil society organisations. It harnesses the experience, resources and reach of its 1,300 Member organisations and the input of some 15,000 experts. IUCN is the global authority on the status of the natural world and the measures needed to safeguard it. www.iucn.org https://twitter.com/IUCN/ IUCN – The Species Survival Commission The Species Survival Commission (SSC) is the largest of IUCN’s six volunteer commissions with a global membership of more than 10,000 experts. SSC advises IUCN and its members on the wide range of technical and scientific aspects of species conservation and is dedicated to securing a future for biodiversity. SSC has significant input into the international agreements dealing with biodiversity conservation. http://www.iucn.org/theme/species/about/species-survival-commission-ssc IUCN – Global Species Programme The IUCN Species Programme supports the activities of the IUCN Species Survival Commission and individual Specialist Groups, as well as implementing global species conservation initiatives. It is an integral part of the IUCN Secretariat and is managed from IUCN’s international headquarters in Gland, Switzerland. The Species Programme includes a number of technical units covering Species Trade and Use, the IUCN Red List Unit, Freshwater Biodiversity Unit (all located in Cambridge, UK), the Global Biodiversity Assessment Initiative (located in Washington DC, USA), and the Marine Biodiversity Unit (located in Norfolk, Virginia, USA). www.iucn.org/species IUCN – Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation The Centre was opened in October 2001 with the core support of the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Environment, the regional Government of Junta de Andalucía and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID). -
How Reliable Is It?
PROTECTED AREA SITE SELECTION BASED ON ABIOTIC DATA: HOW RELIABLE IS IT? A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF NATURAL AND APPLIED SCIENCES OF MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY BY BANU KAYA ÖZDEMĠREL IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN BIOLOGY FEBRUARY 2011 Approval of the thesis: PROTECTED AREA SITE SELECTION BASED ON ABIOTIC DATA: HOW RELIABLE IS IT? submitted by BANU KAYA ÖZDEMİREL in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Department of Biological Sciences, Middle East Technical University by, Prof. Dr. Canan Özgen _____________ Dean, Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences Prof. Dr. Musa Doğan _____________ Head of Department, Biological Sciences, METU Assoc. Prof. Dr. C. Can Bilgin _____________ Supervisor, Department of Biological Sciences, METU Examining Committee Members: Prof. Dr. Aykut Kence ____________________ Department of Biological Sciences, METU. Assoc. Prof. Dr. C. Can Bilgin ____________________ Department of Biological Sciences, METU. Prof. Dr. Zeki Kaya ____________________ Department of Biological Sciences, METU. Prof. Dr. Nilgül Karadeniz ____________________ Department of Landscape Architecture. AU. Prof. Dr. ġebnem Düzgün ____________________ Department of Mining Engineering. METU. Date: 11.02.2011 I hereby declare that all information in this document has been obtained and presented in accordance with academic rules and ethical conduct. I also declare that, as required by these rules and conduct, I have fully cited and referenced all material and results that are not original to this work. Name, Last Name: Banu Kaya Özdemirel Signature : III ABSTRACT PROTECTED AREA SITE SELECTION BASED ON ABIOTIC DATA: HOW RELIABLE IS IT? Özdemirel Kaya, Banu Ph.D., Department of Biology Supervisor: Assoc. -
Armenia in Spring
Armenia in Spring Naturetrek Tour Report 6 - 14 June 2019 Mammoth Wasp, Megascolia maculata Black-eared Wheatear Alpine Gagea/Colchicum Scarce Swallowtail Report by Neil Anderson Naturetrek Mingledown Barn Wolf's Lane Chawton Alton Hampshire GU34 3HJ UK T: +44 (0)1962 733051 E: [email protected] W: www.naturetrek.co.uk Tour Report Armenia in Spring Tour participants: Neil Anderson (leader) Ani Sarkisyan and Artem Murdakhanyan (local ornithologists) With nine Naturetrek clients. Day 1 Thursday 6th June Arrive Terevan via Moscow We departed late morning from Terminal 4 at Heathrow to Moscow on a comfortable Aeroflot flight. After a four-hour flight we had a similar length wait at Moscow for our connecting flight to Yerevan which arrived after midnight. Day 2 Friday 7th June Mount Aragats A leisurely start to our day we had an hour’s drive to Mount Aragats which is a four-peaked volcano massif which at the northern end reaches 4090 metres above sea level, the highest point in the lower Caucasus and Armenia. Our plan was to stop at various points on the ascent to explore different vegetation zones with their differing avifauna. We started by the alphabet park which was busy with tourists. Birds seen here included a singing Black-headed Bunting which was to be one of our most frequently encountered birds on the trip, a Booted Eagle passing over and a male Caspian Stonechat. The verges were colourful with masses of Variable Vetch, Oriental Poppy and Anchusa azurea. The warm conditions encouraged plenty of insects with Scarce Swallowtail, Painted Lady, Clouded Yellow and Hummingbird Hawk-moth seen. -
Lista Completa Especies Mariposas De Castilla-La Mancha Complete List of Butterfly Species from Castilla-La Mancha
Lista completa especies mariposas de Castilla-La Mancha Complete list of butterfly species from Castilla-La Mancha Familia Hesperiidae 1. Carcharodus alceae 2. Pyrgus onopordi 3. Muschampia proto 4. Carcharodus baeticus 5. Spialia sertorius 6. Pyrgus alveus 7. Carcharodus floccifera 8. Thymelicus acteon 9. Pyrgus cinarae 10. Erynnis tages 11. Thymelicus lineola 12. Pyrgus serratulae 13. Gegenes nostrodamus 14. Thymelicus sylvestris 15. Spialia rosae 16. Hesperia comma 17. Carcharodus lavatherae 18. Pyrgus cirsii 19. Ochlodes sylvanus 20. Pyrgus carthami 21. Pyrgus malvoides 22. Pyrgus armoricanus Familia Lycaenidae 1. Aricia cramera 2. Polyommatus thersites 3. Polyommatus amandus 4. Cacyreus marshalli 5. Satyrium acaciae 6. Polyommatus ripartii 7. Callophrys rubi 8. Satyrium esculi 9. Polyommatus damon 10. Celastrina argiolus 11. Satyrium ilicis 12. Polyommatus daphnis 13. Cupido minimus 14. Satyrium spini 15. Polyommatus fabressei 16. Cyaniris semiargus 17. Tomares ballus 18. Polyommatus violetae 19. Favonius quercus 20. Zizeeria knysna 21. Polyommatus dorylas 22. Glaucopsyche alexis 23. Aricia montensis 24. Polyommatus escheri 25. Glaucopsyche melanops 26. Aricia morronensis 27. Polyommatus icarus 28. Lampides boeticus 29. Callophrys avis 30. Polyommatus nivescens 31. Leptotes pirithous 32. Cupido osiris 33. Lycaena bleusei 34. Lycaena alciphron 35. Iolana debilitata 36. Lysandra albicans 37. Lycaena phlaeas 38. Kretania hesperica 39. Lysandra caelestissima 40. Lycaena virgaureae 41. Laeosopis roboris 42. Lysandra hispana 43. Phengaris arion 44. Plebejus idas 45. Lysandra bellargus 46. Plebejus argus 47. Phengaris nausithous 48. Pseudophilotes abencerragus 49. Scolitantides orion 50. Pseudophilotes panoptes Familia Nymphalidae 1. Aglais io 2. Hipparchia semele 3. Satyrus actaea 4. Aglais urticae 5. Hipparchia statilinus 6. Speyeria aglaja 7. Argynnis pandora 8. -
Lepidoptera) – Are We Missing a Part of the Picture?
Eur. J. Entomol. 111(4): 543–553, 2014 doi: 10.14411/eje.2014.060 ISSN 1210-5759 (print), 1802-8829 (online) Generalist-specialist continuum and life history traits of Central European butterflies (Lepidoptera) – are we missing a part of the picture? ALENA BARTONOVA1, 2, JIRI BENES 2 and MARTIN KONVICKA1, 2 1 Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branisovska 31, 37005 Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic; e-mails: [email protected]; [email protected] 2 Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre ASCR, Branisovska 31, 37005 Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic; e-mail: [email protected] Key words. Lepidoptera, Czech butterflies, life history traits, generalist-specialist continuum, C-S-R strategies, voltinism constraint, population trend, Central Europe Abstract. Analyzing life history traits of butterfly communities and faunas frequently reveals a generalist-specialist continuum as the main gradient, where species using wide arrays of resources, with good dispersal ability and fast development are distinguished from those using specialised resources, having limited dispersal ability and developing slowly. To ascertain the validity of the generalist- specialist approach for an intermediately species-rich Central European fauna, we analyzed ten life history traits for 136 species of butterflies currently occurring in the Czech Republic, using principal correspondence analysis (PCA) and controlling for phylogeny. The main gradient extracted indeed revealed a generalist-specialist continuum, while the gradient perpendicular to the main axis distin- guished between small-bodied polyvoltine species feeding on small herbaceous plants and large-bodied monovoltine species feeding on grasses or woody plants. We coin “constrained voltinism continuum” for the second gradient and argue that it reflects the effect of anti-herbivore strategies of larval host plants on butterfly development.