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) Assisted colonization in a changing climate: a test-study using two U.K. butterflies. Conservation Letters, 2, 46-52.
(2010) The Butterfly Red List For Great Britain. Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough.
(2017) Citizen science and invasive alien species: Predicting the detection of the oak processionary moth Thaumetopoea processionea by moth recorders. Biological Conservation, 208, 146-154.
(2017) Climate change, climatic variation and extreme biological responses. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 372, 20160144.
(2017) The dark side of street lighting: impacts on moths and evidence for the disruption of nocturnal pollen transport. Global Change Biology, 23, 697-707.
(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.
(2007) Direct and indirect effects of climate and habitat factors on butterfly diversity. Ecology, 88, 605-611.
(2006) The distributions of a wide range of taxonomic groups are expanding polewards. Global Change Biology, 12, 450-455.
(2006) The effects of visual apparency on bias in butterfly recording and monitoring. Biological Conservation, 128, 486-492.
(2017) Efficient occupancy model-fitting for extensive citizen-science data. PloS one, 12, e0174433.
(2018) Extinction risk from climate change is reduced by microclimatic buffering. Nature Climate Change, 8, 713-717.
(2007) Government targets for protected area management: will threatened butterflies benefit?. Biodiversity and Conservation, 16, 3719-3736.
(2006) Impacts of climate warming and habitat loss on extinctions at species' low-latitude range boundaries. Global Change Biology, 12, 15451553.
(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.
(2001) The Millennium Atlas Of Butterflies In Britain And Ireland. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
(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) (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.
(2006) Species richness changes lag behind climate change. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 273, 1465-1470.
(2006) The State Of Butterflies In Britain And Ireland. Pisces, Newbury.