Integrating national Red Lists for prioritising conservation actions for European butterflies [* Cross-Reference *]

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Maes, Dirk; Verovnik, Rudi; Wiemers, Martin; Brosens, Dimitri; Beshkov, Stoyan; Bonelli, Simona; Buszko, Jaroslaw; Cantú-Salazar, Lisette; Cassar, Louis Francis; Collins, Sue; Dincă, Vlad; Djuric, Milan; Dušej, Goran; Elven, Hallvard; Franeta, Filip; Garcia-Pereira, Patricia; Geryak, Yurii; Goffart, Philippe; Gór, Ádám; Hiermann, Ulrich; Höttinger, Helmut; Huemer, Peter; Jakšić, Predrag; John, Eddie; Kalivoda, Henrik; Kati, Vassiliki; Kirkland, Paul; Komac, Benjamin; Kőrösi, Ádám; Kulak, Anatolij; Kuussaari, Mikko; L’Hoste, Lionel; Lelo, Suvad; Mestdagh, Xavier; Micevski, Nikola; Mihoci, Iva; Mihut, Sergiu; Monasterio-León, Yeray; Morgun, Dmitry V.; Munguira, Miguel L.; Murray, Tomás; Nielsen, Per Stadel; Ólafsson, Erling; Õunap, Erki; Pamperis, Lazaros N.; Pavlíčko, Alois; Pettersson, Lars B.; Popov, Serhiy; Popović, Miloš; Pöyry, Juha; Prentice, Mike; Reyserhove, Lien; Ryrholm, Nils; Šašić, Martina; Savenkov, Nikolay; Settele, Josef; Sielezniew, Marcin; Sinev, Sergey; Stefanescu, Constanti; Švitra, Giedrius; Tammaru, Toomas; Tiitsaar, Anu; Tzirkalli, Elli; Tzortzakaki, Olga; van Swaay, Chris A.M.; Viborg, Arne Lykke; Wynhoff, Irma; Zografou, Konstantina; Warren, Martin S., 2026, "Integrating national Red Lists for prioritising conservation actions for European butterflies [* Cross-Reference *]", https://lore.list.lu/citation?persistentId=perma:LIST.BIERUD, LIST Open Repository, V1

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Description	Red Lists are very valuable tools in nature conservation at global, continental and (sub-) national scales. In an attempt to prioritise conservation actions for European butterflies, we compiled a database with species lists and Red Lists of all European countries, including the Macaronesian archipelagos (Azores, Madeira and Canary Islands). In total, we compiled national species lists for 42 countries and national Red Lists for 34 of these. The most species-rich countries in Europe are Italy, Russia and France with more than 250 species each. Endemic species are mainly found on the Macaronesian archipelagos and on the Mediterranean islands. By attributing numerical values proportionate to the threat statuses in the different national Red List categories, we calculated a mean Red List value for every country (cRLV) and a weighted Red List value for every species (wsRLV) using the square root of the country’s area as a weighting factor. Countries with the highest cRLV were industrialised (NW) European countries such as the Netherlands, Belgium, the Czech Republic and Denmark, whereas large Mediterranean countries such as Spain and Italy had the lowest cRLV. Species for which a Red List assessment was available in at least two European countries and with a relatively high wsRLV (≥ 50) are Colias myrmidone, Pseudochazara orestes, Tomares nogelii, Colias chrysotheme and Coenonympha oedippus. We compared these wsRLVs with the species statuses on the European Red List to identify possible mismatches. We discuss how this complementary method can help to prioritise butterfly conservation on the continental and/or the (sub-)national scale. (2019-04-15) *This entry has been automatically imported via Infodoc(ASO) CSV by LIST harvest scripts. Please refer to https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-019-00127-z for the original and latest version of the dataset and data downloads* (2026-06-11)
Subject	Earth and Environmental Sciences
Keyword	Biogeography, Habitats directive, IUCN, Lepidoptera, Management, Policy, Threatened species
License/Data Use Agreement	Custom Dataset Terms


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Persistent Identifier	perma:LIST.BIERUD
Publication Date	2026-07-06
Title	Integrating national Red Lists for prioritising conservation actions for European butterflies [* Cross-Reference *]
Other Identifier	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-019-00127-z SCOPUS_ID:85060223710
Author	Maes, Dirk (Research Institute for Nature and Forest, Brussels, Butterfly Conservation Europe (BCE)) - ORCID: 0000-0002-7947-3788 Verovnik, Rudi (Butterfly Conservation Europe (BCE), Univerza v Ljubljani) Wiemers, Martin (Butterfly Conservation Europe (BCE), Helmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung) - ORCID: 0000-0001-5272-3903 Brosens, Dimitri (Research Institute for Nature and Forest, Brussels, Belgian Biodiversity Platform) - ORCID: 0000-0002-0846-9116 Beshkov, Stoyan (National Museum of Natural History Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) Bonelli, Simona (Università degli Studi di Torino) - ORCID: 0000-0001-5185-8136 Buszko, Jaroslaw (Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu) Cantú-Salazar, Lisette (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology) Cassar, Louis Francis (L-Università ta' Malta) - ORCID: 0000-0001-6459-3931 Collins, Sue (Butterfly Conservation Europe (BCE)) Dincă, Vlad (Oulun Yliopisto) - ORCID: 0000-0003-1791-2148 Djuric, Milan Dušej, Goran (Swiss Butterfly Conservation) Elven, Hallvard (Universitetet i Oslo) Franeta, Filip (Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops Serbia) Garcia-Pereira, Patricia (Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa) - ORCID: 0000-0002-7149-6010 Geryak, Yurii (Lviv Department of the Ukrainian Entomological Society) Goffart, Philippe (Service Public de Wallonie) Gór, Ádám (University of Veterinary Medicine Budapest) Hiermann, Ulrich Höttinger, Helmut (BOKU University) Huemer, Peter - ORCID: 0000-0002-0630-545X Jakšić, Predrag (University of Niš) John, Eddie (Cyprus Butterfly Study group) Kalivoda, Henrik (Slovak Academy of Sciences) Kati, Vassiliki (University of Ioannina) - ORCID: 0000-0003-3357-4556 Kirkland, Paul (Butterfly Conservation Europe (BCE), Butterfly Conservation) Komac, Benjamin (Institut d'Estudis Andorrans) Kőrösi, Ádám (Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, Hungarian Lepidopterological Society) - ORCID: 0000-0003-1528-1872 Kulak, Anatolij (National Academy of Sciences of Belarus) - ORCID: 0000-0002-1467-4925 Kuussaari, Mikko (Suomen Ympäristökeskus) - ORCID: 0000-0003-0264-9316 L’Hoste, Lionel (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology) Lelo, Suvad (Univerzitet u Sarajevu) Mestdagh, Xavier (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology) Micevski, Nikola (Macedonian Entomological Society (ENTOMAK)) Mihoci, Iva (Hrvatski prirodoslovni muzej) Mihut, Sergiu (Focal Centre for Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation) Monasterio-León, Yeray (Asociación Española Para la Protección de Las Mariposas y Su Medio (ZERYNTHIA)) - ORCID: 0000-0001-7611-5961 Morgun, Dmitry V. (Regional Research and Tourism) Munguira, Miguel L. (Butterfly Conservation Europe (BCE), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) - ORCID: 0000-0002-1554-4380 Murray, Tomás (National Biodiversity Data Centre) - ORCID: 0000-0002-0483-3822 Nielsen, Per Stadel (Lepidopterologisk Forening (Lepidopterological Society)) Ólafsson, Erling (Natural Science Institute of Iceland) - ORCID: 0000-0002-4729-0098 Õunap, Erki (Ökoloogia ja Maateaduste Instituut) Pamperis, Lazaros N. Pavlíčko, Alois (Společnost pro ochranu motýlů) Pettersson, Lars B. (Butterfly Conservation Europe (BCE), Lunds Universitet) - ORCID: 0000-0001-5745-508X Popov, Serhiy (Butterfly Monitoring Scheme in the West Ukraine) Popović, Miloš (University of Niš) - ORCID: 0000-0003-0887-6683 Pöyry, Juha (Suomen Ympäristökeskus) - ORCID: 0000-0002-5548-1046 Prentice, Mike (Butterfly Conservation Europe (BCE), European Butterflies Group) Reyserhove, Lien (Research Institute for Nature and Forest, Brussels) - ORCID: 0000-0001-7484-9267 Ryrholm, Nils (Hogskolan i Gavle) Šašić, Martina (Butterfly Conservation Europe (BCE), Hrvatski prirodoslovni muzej) - ORCID: 0000-0002-0612-5619 Savenkov, Nikolay (Latvian National Museum of Natural History) Settele, Josef (Butterfly Conservation Europe (BCE), Helmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig) - ORCID: 0000-0002-8624-4983 Sielezniew, Marcin (Uniwersytet w Bialymstoku) - ORCID: 0000-0001-6207-859X Sinev, Sergey (Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences) - ORCID: 0000-0002-6218-1463 Stefanescu, Constanti (Museu de Ciències Naturals de Granollers) - ORCID: 0000-0001-8952-7869 Švitra, Giedrius (Lithuanian Entomological Society) Tammaru, Toomas (Ökoloogia ja Maateaduste Instituut) - ORCID: 0000-0002-6892-5910 Tiitsaar, Anu (Ökoloogia ja Maateaduste Instituut) Tzirkalli, Elli (Cyprus Butterfly Study group, University of Ioannina) - ORCID: 0000-0002-7839-2150 Tzortzakaki, Olga (University of Patras) - ORCID: 0000-0003-1933-0133 van Swaay, Chris A.M. (Butterfly Conservation Europe (BCE), Dutch Butterfly Conservation) - ORCID: 0000-0003-0927-2216 Viborg, Arne Lykke (Lepidopterologisk Forening (Lepidopterological Society)) Wynhoff, Irma (Butterfly Conservation Europe (BCE), Dutch Butterfly Conservation) - ORCID: 0000-0002-3003-897X Zografou, Konstantina (College of Science and Technology) - ORCID: 0000-0003-4305-0238 Warren, Martin S. (Butterfly Conservation Europe (BCE))
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Description	Red Lists are very valuable tools in nature conservation at global, continental and (sub-) national scales. In an attempt to prioritise conservation actions for European butterflies, we compiled a database with species lists and Red Lists of all European countries, including the Macaronesian archipelagos (Azores, Madeira and Canary Islands). In total, we compiled national species lists for 42 countries and national Red Lists for 34 of these. The most species-rich countries in Europe are Italy, Russia and France with more than 250 species each. Endemic species are mainly found on the Macaronesian archipelagos and on the Mediterranean islands. By attributing numerical values proportionate to the threat statuses in the different national Red List categories, we calculated a mean Red List value for every country (cRLV) and a weighted Red List value for every species (wsRLV) using the square root of the country’s area as a weighting factor. Countries with the highest cRLV were industrialised (NW) European countries such as the Netherlands, Belgium, the Czech Republic and Denmark, whereas large Mediterranean countries such as Spain and Italy had the lowest cRLV. Species for which a Red List assessment was available in at least two European countries and with a relatively high wsRLV (≥ 50) are Colias myrmidone, Pseudochazara orestes, Tomares nogelii, Colias chrysotheme and Coenonympha oedippus. We compared these wsRLVs with the species statuses on the European Red List to identify possible mismatches. We discuss how this complementary method can help to prioritise butterfly conservation on the continental and/or the (sub-)national scale. (2019-04-15) *This entry has been automatically imported via Infodoc(ASO) CSV by LIST harvest scripts. Please refer to https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-019-00127-z for the original and latest version of the dataset and data downloads* (2026-06-11)
Subject	Earth and Environmental Sciences
Keyword	Biogeography Habitats directive IUCN Lepidoptera Management Policy Threatened species
Deposit Date	2019-04-15
Data Type	Article
Data Source	Journal of Insect Conservation; ISSN: 1366638X, eISSN: 15729753, vol. 23, n° 2, pp. 301-330

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