Research and Publications
] (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) (2015) Two species with an unusual combination of traits dominate responses of British grasshoppers and crickets to environmental change. PloS ONE, 10, e0130488.
Beckmann et al 2015 - Two Species with an Unusual Combination of Traits Dominate Responses of British Grasshoppers and Crickets to Environmental Change.pdf (1.76 MB) (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.
(2013) Range expansion through fragmented landscapes under a variable climate. Ecology Letter, 16, 921-929.
(2011) A framework for assessing threats and benefits to species responding to climate change. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2, 5.
(2010) Error propagation associated with benefits transfer-based mapping of ecosystem services. Biological Conservation, 143, 2487-2493.
(2010) The impact of proxy-based methods on mapping the distribution of ecosystem services. Journal of Applied Ecology, 47, 377-385.
(2010) Linking habitat use to range expansion rates in fragmented landscapes: a metapopulation approach. Ecography, 33, 73-82.
(2010) Representation of ecosystem services by tiered conservation strategies. Conservation Letters, 3, 184-191.
(2009) Assisted colonization in a changing climate: a test-study using two U.K. butterflies. Conservation Letters, 2, 46-52.
(2009) Changes in habitat specificity of species at their climatic range boundaries. Ecology Letters, 12, 1091-1102.
(2009) Ecosystem service benefits of contrasting conservation strategies in a human-dominated region. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 276, 2903-2911.
(2009) Modelling the effect of habitat fragmentation on range expansion in a butterfly. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 276, 1421-1427.
(2009) Spatial covariance between biodiversity and other ecosystem service priorities. Journal of Applied Ecology, 46, 888-896.
(2009) Surrogacy and persistence in reserve selection: landscape prioritization for multiple taxa in Britain. Journal of Applied Ecology, 46, 82-91.
(2008) Changes in the composition of British butterfly assemblages over two decades. Global Change Biology, 14, 1464-1474.
(2007) Direct and indirect effects of climate and habitat factors on butterfly diversity. Ecology, 88, 605-611.
(2007) Mapping ecosystem services: Estimating errors associated with benefits transfer. Journal of Applied Ecology.
(2006) The distributions of a wide range of taxonomic groups are expanding polewards. Global Change Biology, 12, 450-455.
(2006) Impacts of climate warming and habitat loss on extinctions at species' low-latitude range boundaries. Global Change Biology, 12, 15451553.
(2006) Parallel Declines in Pollinators and Insect-Pollinated Plants in Britain and the Netherlands. Science, 313, 351-354.
(2006) Species richness changes lag behind climate change. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 273, 1465-1470.