Research and Publications
] (2016) Assessing species' habitat associations from occurrence records, standardised monitoring data and expert opinion: A test with British butterflies. Ecological Indicators, 62, 271-278.
(2009) Changes in habitat specificity of species at their climatic range boundaries. Ecology Letters, 12, 1091-1102.
(2017) Developing a biodiversity-based indicator for large-scale environmental assessment: a case study of proposed shale gas extraction sites in Britain. Journal of Applied Ecology, 54, 872-882.
(2017) European butterfly populations vary in sensitivity to weather across their geographical ranges. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 26, 1374-1385.
(2011) A framework for assessing threats and benefits to species responding to climate change. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2, 5.
(2017) Large extents of intensive land use limit community reorganization during climate warming. Global Change Biology, 23, 2272-2283.
(2017) Large extents of intensive land use limit community reorganization during climate warming. Global Change Biology, 23, 2272-2283.
(2017) Large reorganizations in butterfly communities during an extreme weather event. Ecography, 40, 577-585.
(2014) Long-term changes in the distribution of British moths consistent with opposing and synergistic effects of climate and land use change. Journal of Applied Ecology, 51, 949-957.
(2011) Measuring functional connectivity using long‐term monitoring data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2, 527-533.
(2017) A national-scale assessment of climate change impacts on species: Assessing the balance of risks and opportunities for multiple taxa. Biological Conservation, 213, 124 - 134.
Pearce-Higgins et al 2017 - A national-scale assessment of climate change impacts on species - Assessing the balance of risks and opportunities for multiple taxa.pdf (2.58 MB) (2017) A national-scale model of linear features improves predictions of farmland biodiversity. Journal of Applied Ecology, 54, 1776-1784.
(2018) Population variability in species can be deduced from opportunistic citizen science records: a case study using British butterflies. Insect Conservation and Diversity, 11, 131-142.
(2018) Potential landscape-scale pollinator networks across Great Britain: structure, stability and influence of agricultural land cover. Ecology Letters, 21, 1821-1832.
(2016) A regionally informed abundance index for supporting integrative analyses across butterfly monitoring schemes. Journal of Applied Ecology, 53, 501-510.
(2015) Similarities in butterfly emergence dates among populations suggest local adaptation to climate. Global Change Biology, 21, 3313-3322.
Roy et al. 2015 - Similarities in butterfly emergence dates among populations suggest local adaptation to climate.pdf (196.81 KB) (2017) Synchrony in population counts predicts butterfly movement frequencies. Ecological Entomology, 42, 375-378.
(2016) A Synthesis is Emerging between Biodiversity-Ecosystem Function and Ecological Resilience Research: Reply to Mori. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 31, 89-92.
(2012) Towards a measure of functional connectivity: local synchrony matches small scale movements in a woodland edge butterfly. Landscape Ecology, 27, 1109-1120.