Ainars Aunins

TL;DR: Despite many differences between the two regions, expectations about how a species might respond to climate change did predict actual responses, and species predicted to benefit from increasing temperatures, or their associated effects, tended to increase, whereas those predicted to be negatively affected declined.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the continued underrepresentation of the low-intensity farmland in Central and Eastern Europe in the international literature and EU policy is impeding the development of sound, evidence-based conservation interventions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the spatial connectedness of Natura 2000 site boundaries and the functional connectivity of the network across the 34 terrestrial borders of the European Union and found that good connectivity is not always possible because of different habitats and/or different management on both sides of border.

TL;DR: The Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PCMBS) as discussed by the authors is a large scale database of 170 species of birds collected by around fifteen thousand fieldworkers annually counting breeding birds using standardized protocols in 28 European countries.

TL;DR: Although the N2000 network supports higher abundance of a large spectrum of species, the low number of specialist butterfly species showing a positive association stresses the need to implement management plan improving the quality of habitats of N2000 areas potentially harboring openland butterfly specialists.