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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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    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

    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

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

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

    Summary of the stakeholder workshop
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    Life-history traits influence species-area relationships

    The impact of over 80 years of land cover changes on bee and wasp pollinator communities in England
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    Mittakaava ja luonnonsuojelu [Scale and nature conservation]

    Spatial Road Disturbance Index (SPROADI) for conservation planning: a novel landscape index, demonstrated for the State of Brandenburg, Germany

    Governance rescaling and the neoliberalization of nature conservation in the EU: We are not all in this together

    Public participation and environmental justice in biodiversity governance in Finland, Greece, Poland and the UK

    A review on spatial data integration across monitoring schemes: mapping biodiversity from multiple monitoring data sources

    Downscaling of supra-national heterogeneous coarse atlas data to obtain fine-grained distribution maps

    Minimum Area Requirements: what can we learn from the different ways to derive it, and how can we make it useful for biological conservation

    STAR-BME: A GIS tool for spatiotemporal modeling under a knowledge synthesis framework

    An optimal sampling scheme with downscaling approach for sampling of bird species at various scale sample sites

    Simulation of Ecosystem Responses to Multiple Hierarchical Disturbances: a Major Earthquake and Typhoons

    Land-use pattern modification for optimal bird\'s conservation

    Ekosysteemipalvelut, vapaaehtoisuus ja soidensuojelu [Ecosystem services, voluntariness and mire conservation]

    Assessing Governance Structures for Green Infrastructure

    Spatial density-dependence in parasitoids: a meta-analysis

    Impacts of land cover data selection and trait parameterisation on dynamic modelling of species’ range expansion

    Between the stakeholders and forest policy – negotiating for societally accepted forest conservation in Finland

    Distributional patterns of butterflies across multiple scales: differences between declining and expanding species and the impact of species traits

    Predicting ground temperatures across European landscapes

    Towards a unified descriptive theory for spatial ecology: predicting biodiversity patterns across spatial scales

    Multi-criterion assessment of landscapes for conservation

    A protocol for better design, application and communication of population viability analyses

    Scaling in Ecology and Biodiversity Conservation
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    SPLATCHE2: a spatially explicit simulation framework for complex demography, genetic admixture and recombination
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    Testing the validity of Northern European species in the Chrysis ignita species group (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae) with DNA Barcoding
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    Expansion of Nature Conservation Areas: Problems with Natura 2000 Implementation in Poland?
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    Improving conservation planning for semi-natural grasslands: Integrating connectivity into agri-environment schemes

    Species identification and genetic differentiation of European cavity-nesting wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Pompilidae, Crabronidae) inferred from DNA barcoding data

    Bushes protected tortoises from lethal overheating in arid areas of Morocco

    Payments for Ecosystem Services: Durable Habits, Dubious Nudges, Doubtful Efficacy

    Rapid assessment of historic, current and future habitat quality for biodiversity around UK Natura 2000 sites
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    Human Activities in Natura 2000 Sites: A Highly Diversified Conservation Network

    Relative importance of density-dependent regulation and environmental stochasticity for butterfly population dynamics

    Microfragmentation concept explains non-positive environmental heterogeneity–diversity relationships

    Selection on dispersal in isolated butterfly metapopulations
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    Grazing effects on plant functional group diversity in Mediterranean shrublands

    Prioritizing species for conservation planning

    Mapping from heterogeneous biodiversity monitoring data sources

    Using unclassified continuous remote sensing data to improve distribution models of red-listed plant species

    Delimiting synchronous populations from monitoring data

    Local populations of endangered Maculinea (Phengaris) butterflies are flood resistant
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    Landscape variables impact the structure and composition of butterfly assemblages along an urbanization gradient

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

    Butterfly dispersal in inhospitable matrix: rare, risky, but long-distance
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    From supply to social demand: a landscape-scale analysis of the water regulation service

    Assessing bee species richness in two Mediterranean communities: importance of habitat type and sampling techniques

    Species richness and trait composition of butterfly assemblages change along an altitudinal gradient

    The landscape matrix modifies the effect of habitat fragmentation in grassland butterflies

    A panel of microsatellite markers developed for solitary trap-nesting wasp Ancistrocerus trifasciatus (Müller, 1776) by cross-species amplification
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    Influence of Admixture and Paleolithic Range Contractions on Current European Diversity Gradients
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    Coming Across and Coping with Uncertainty in Biodiversity Research and Praxis
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    Landscape matrix modifies richness of plants and insects in grassland fragments

    An approach to analysing scale-sensitivity and scale-effectiveness of governance in biodiversity conservation

    Metapopulations of endangered Maculinea butterflies are resilient to large-scale fire

    Scale-specific spatial density dependence in parasitoids: a multi-factor meta-analysis

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

    A synthesis of empirical plant dispersal kernels
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    Assessing functional connectivity: a landscape approach for handling multiple ecological requirements

    Mapping functional connectivity: a landscape approach for handling multiple ecological requirements

    RangeShifter: a platform for modelling spatial eco-evolutionary dynamics and species\' responses to environmental changes
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    Assessing the Natura 2000 network with a common breeding birds survey

    Linking indices for biodiversity monitoring to extinction risk theory
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    Edge artefacts and lost performance in national versus continental conservation priority areas
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    Extinction debt for plants and flower-visiting insects in landscapes with contrasting land use history

    Can coarse-grain patterns in insect atlas data predict local occupancy?
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    Modeling bird species distribution change in fire prone Mediterranean landscapes: incorporating species dispersal and landscape dynamics

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

    Species richness declines and biotic homogenisation have slowed down for NW-European pollinators and plants
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    Predicting species distributions for conservation decisions
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    Density of insect-pollinated grassland plants decreases with increasing surrounding land-use intensity

    The potential for indirect effects between co-flowering plants via shared pollinators depends on resource abundance, accessibility and relatedness
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    Beta-diversity patterns elucidate mechanisms of alien plant invasion in mountains

    Do all inter-patch movements represent dispersal? A mixed kernel study of butterfly mobility in fragmented landscapes.
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    Hedgerow trees and extended-width field margins enhance macro-moth diversity: implications for management
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    Natural, human and spatial constraints to expanding populations of otters in the Iberian Peninsula

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

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

    A meta-analysis of dispersal in butterflies
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    Ecological assembly rules in plant communities-approaches, patterns and prospects
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    Landscape moderation of biodiversity patterns and processes - eight hypotheses
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    Traits related to species persistence and dispersal explain changes in plant communities subjected to habitat loss

    Calibration of hybrid species distribution models: the value of general-purpose vs. targeted monitoring data

    Modelling invasive alien species distributions from digital biodiversity atlases. Model upscaling as a means of reconciling data at different scales

    Costs of integrating economics and conservation planning
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