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In this section, you will be able to view all the completed, public SCALES deliverables as well as a listing of scientific publications resulting from the project. Project logo, posters, and leaflets can be downloaded from the Media Centre.
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  • beta diversity
  • biotic communities
  • biotic interactions
  • climate change
  • connectivity
  • dissemination of results
  • disturbance
  • downscaling
  • ecosystem services
  • ecosystems
  • effectiveness instruments
  • efficiency of instruments
  • environmental pressures
  • extinction debt
  • fragmentation
  • functional diversity
  • genes
  • governance
  • habitat loss
  • individuals
  • innovative instruments
  • isolation
  • management
  • matching of methods and instruments
  • participation
  • policy
  • populations
  • practical suitability of methods and policy instruments
  • resilience
  • scale-dependent impact
  • SCALES Tool
  • socio-economic driving forces
  • species area relationships
  • species richness
  • stability
  • upscaling

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    Exploring the contribution of fiscal transfers to protected area policy
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    Nature Reserve as Social-Ecological System

    Synthesizing indices of β-diversity, species richness gradients, turnover, nestedness, and co-occurrence into five consistent families

    5,900 – 5,700 before present: The years when people changed ecological rules

    Conservation planning in a fire-prone Mediterranean region: threats and opportunities for bird species

    Delimiting synchronous populations from monitoring data

    Providing insights on habitat connectivity for male brown bears: A combination of habitat suitability and landscape graph-based models

    Connectivity of the European conservation network: A graph-theory based analysis considering dispersal capacities and minimum area requirements of species

    The state of connectivity conservation in Europe: implementation gaps and recommendations

    Engaging local private and public actors in biodiversity conservation: the role of agri-environmental schemes and ecological fiscal transfers. Environmental Policy and Governance

    Intergovernmental fiscal transfers to support local conservation action in Europe
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    Disentangling the effects of land use change, climate and CO2 on European habitat types

    Natura 2000 conservation network: Variability in the implementation of a common EU framework

    Drivers of Environmental Change within the European Natura 2000 Network: Scaling properties and Implications for Biodiversity Conservation

    Emerging Fragmentation Hotspots in Europe over the next 40 years

    Habitat Changes Across EU Borders

    Predation rates on semi-natural grasslands depend on adjacent habitat type

    Density of insect-pollinated grassland plants decreases with increasing surrounding land-use intensity

    Linking indices for biodiversity monitoring to extinction risk theory
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    Combined effects of extreme climatic events and elevation on nutritional quality and herbivory rates of alpine plants
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    Species richness and trait composition of butterfly assemblages change along an altitudinal gradient

    Elevation and experimental snowmelt manipulation affect emergence phenology and abundance of soil-hibernating arthropods

    Expertise et concertation : peut-on penser collectivement la protection intégrée de la nature ?

    Simulation of ecosystem service responses to multiple disturbances from an earthquake and several typhoons

    The national responsibility approach to setting conservation priorities—Recommendations for its use

    Conservation planning to zone protected areas under optimal landscape management for bird conservation

    An optimal spatial pre-sampling approach distribution of bird species bases on various scale data

    Prioritizing species for conservation planning

    Costs of integrating economics and conservation planning

    Conservation planning with insects at three different spatial scales

    Worldwide decline of specialist species: toward a global functional homogenization? Read More: http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1890/080216

    Natural, human and spatial constraints to expanding populations of otters in the Iberian Peninsula

    Scientific contributions of extensive biodiversity monitoring

    Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in plant roots are not random assemblages
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    Dispersal mood revealed by shifts from routine to direct flights in the meadow brown butterfly Maniola jurtina

    Governance factors in the identification of global conservation priorities for mammals
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    Correlations in species richness between taxa depend on habitat, scale and landscape context

    Functional and phylogenetic community assembly linked to changes in species diversity in a long-term resource manipulation experiment

    Scaling in Ecology and Biodiversity Conservation
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    Mapping to inform conservation: A case study of changes in semi-natural habitats and their connectivity over 70 years

    Mapping ecosystem service and biodiversity changes over 70 years in a rural English county

    A meta-analysis of dispersal in butterflies
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    Efficient biodiversity monitoring: Which taxonomic level to study?

    Homogenization of lepidopteran communities in intensively cultivated agricultural landscapes
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    Biodiversity change is scale-dependent: an example from Dutch and UK hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae)

    Disentangling effects of habitat diversity and area on orthopteran species with contrasting mobility

    Predictions of Taylor\'s power law, density dependence and pink noise from a neutrally modeled time series

    Can we predict the number of plant species from the richness of a few common genera, families or orders?
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    Plant metacommunity structure remains unchanged during biodiversity loss in English woodlands

    Microfragmentation concept explains non-positive environmental heterogeneity–diversity relationships

    Variation within and between closely related species uncovers high intra-specific variability in dispersal
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    Hedgerow trees and extended-width field margins enhance macro-moth diversity: implications for management
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    Securing the Conservation of Biodiversity across Administrative Levels and Spatial, Temporal, and Ecological Scales
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    Assessing functional connectivity: a landscape approach for handling multiple ecological requirements

    Setting conservation targets under budgetary constraints

    Relevance of multiple spatial scales in habitat models: a case study with amphibians and grasshoppers

    Administrative regions in conservation: Balancing local priorities with regional to global preferences in spatial planning

    Drivers of lichen species richness at multiple spatial scales in temperate forests

    Summary of the stakeholder workshop
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    Community ecology of absent species: hidden and dark diversity

    Grazing effects on plant functional group diversity in Mediterranean shrublands

    SPLATCHE2: a spatially explicit simulation framework for complex demography, genetic admixture and recombination
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    Using unclassified continuous remote sensing data to improve distribution models of red-listed plant species

    Effects of species turnover on reserve site selection in a fragmented landscape

    Small-scale grassland assembly patterns differ above and below the soil surface Read More: http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1890/11-1942.1

    Decreased Functional Diversity and Biological Pest Control in Conventional Compared to Organic Crop Fields
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    A decision tool for listing species for protection on different geographic scales and administrative levels

    Increasing range mismatching of interacting species under global change is related to their ecological characteristics

    Evidence for positive density-dependent emigration in butterfly metapopulations
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    Between Geometry and Biology: The Problem of Universality of the Species-Area Relationship

    Landscape matrix modifies richness of plants and insects in grassland fragments

    Landscape moderation of biodiversity patterns and processes - eight hypotheses
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    Large-scale patterns of epiphytic lichen species richness: Photobiont-dependent response to climate and forest structure

    The formation of species pools: historical habitat abundance affects current local diversity

    Species- and sex-specific adjustments of movement behavior to landscape heterogeneity in butterflies
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    Life-history traits influence species-area relationships

    Consequences of Range Contractions and Range Shifts on Molecular Diversity
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    Refining rare weed trait syndromes along arable intensification gradients

    Fiscal transfers for biodiversity conservation: The Portuguese Local Finances Law

    The impact of over 80 years of land cover changes on bee and wasp pollinator communities in England
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    Scale-specific spatial density dependence in parasitoids: a multi-factor meta-analysis

    Protected areas and their surrounding territory: socioecological systems in the context of ecological solidarity
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    How is dispersal integrated in life histories: a quantitative analysis using butterflies
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    A synthesis of empirical plant dispersal kernels
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    Navigating protected areas as social-ecological systems: integration pathways of French nature reserves

    Scaling distributional patterns of butterflies across multiple scales: Impact of range history and habitat type

    A GIS-based policy support tool to determine national responsibilities and priorities for biodiversity conservation
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    Sampling and modelling rare species: Conceptual guidelines for the neglected majority
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    Traits related to species persistence and dispersal explain changes in plant communities subjected to habitat loss

    Effects of Connectivity and Spatial Resolution of Analyses on Conservation Prioritization across Large Extents

    Ecological assembly rules in plant communities-approaches, patterns and prospects
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    Do all inter-patch movements represent dispersal? A mixed kernel study of butterfly mobility in fragmented landscapes.
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    Expansion of Nature Conservation Areas: Problems with Natura 2000 Implementation in Poland?
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    Can public participation increase nature conservation effectiveness?

    Road effects on habitat richness of the Greek Natura 2000 network
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    Dos and Don’ts for butterflies of the Habitats Directive of the European Union
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    Relating Habitat and Climatic Niches in Birds
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    Patterns of beta diversity in Europe: the role of climate, land cover and distance across scales

    The changing landscape of ecological networks

    Universal species-area and endemics-area relationships at continental scales
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