British and Irish Butterflies : An Island Perspective.

Intro -- Half Title -- Online Supplementary Appendices -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- List of Figures -- List of Plates -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Basics of Island Biogeography -- The Basic Model of Island Biogeography -- A Broader View of Island Faunas -- An Integrative Island Biogeography Model -- Population and Ecological Changes on Islands -- Evolutionary Transformations and Novel Species -- Island Species as Unique Entities -- 2. The British Islands: a Geological and Historical Outline -- How Many British Islands Are There? -- The British Islands: Composition, Context and Complexity -- Glacial-Interglacial Cycles: Ice Landscapes -- Shifting Sea Levels, Coastal Physiognomy and Island Formation -- Climate Change During Island Formation -- Post-Glacial Transformations to Island Landscapes -- Historical Imperatives -- 3. Island Butterflies: Understanding and Interpreting Records -- Habitat and Biotope -- Habitat and Movement -- Dispersal and Migration: an Island Viewpoint -- Species Records and What They Imply -- Bias and Mistaken Records -- Introductions -- British and Irish Butterfly Databanks and Sources -- Selecting Islands for Study -- 4. British and Irish Butterfly Species: Links and Gradients -- How Unusual Are British Butterflies? -- Island Environment-Species Gradients -- A Recording History of Gains and Losses on the British Mainland -- Predicting British Species -- Ranges, Distributions and Species Diversity: Detecting Deeper Causes -- Range Changes in Recent Times -- Sources and Range Oscillations of Long-distance Migrants -- 5. Island Associations and Species Affinities: Geographical Influences -- European Islands: the Wider Context -- Comparing Butterfly Richness Profiles of Britain and Ireland -- Ireland's Unusual Case of the Cryptic Wood White -- The Influence of Geography on Island Species Richness.

Geography of Archipelagos: the Isles of Scilly -- Island Assemblages of Butterfly Species -- Butterfly Associations on British and Irish Islands -- 6. Assessing the Status of Individual Species on Islands: from Geography to Ecology -- Using Geography to Predict Species Richness -- Predicting the Incidence of a Butterfly Species on an Offshore Island: the Grayling on Grassholm -- Predicting Incidences of Butterfly Species on the British and Irish Offshore Islands -- The Drumlin Islands of Strangford Lough -- Colonizing Islands: Modelling Individual Probabilities of Success and Failure -- How Well Does Island Butterfly Incidence Reflect Butterfly Ecology? -- Using Species' Ecological Profiles to Examine Inter-island Relationships -- 7. Changing Patterns of Species Incidences on Islands -- Ecological Bases for Stable and Changing Island Faunas -- Historical Signals in Geographical and Ecological Data -- Order and Change in Island Faunas -- Turnover and Trends: the Case of Hilbre and the Farne Islands -- Desert Islands: the Perpetual Turnover of Adventives (Itinerants) -- Big Changes on Big Islands: Uncertain Visits and Problematic Extinctions on the Isle of Man -- Rare Migrants: the Future Colonists? -- 8. British and Irish Islands: an Evolutionary Vantage -- Pulses of Loss and Gain: Return Periods and Recurrence Intervals -- Outlets of Change: Ecological Release and Marginality -- Glacial Refuges and the Post-glacial Invasion and Colonization Process of Britain and Ireland -- Butterfly Space-Time Responses to Changing Conditions in Post-Devensian Britain and Ireland -- Shrinking Habitats and Ecological Islands in Holocene Britain -- Variation: Genes, Phenes and Plastic Traits -- Models of Differentiation and Adaptation -- Adjusting to Living on Small Islands -- 9. Island Studies: a Glance Back and the View Ahead.

Islands: a Pattern of Intricate and Endless Changes -- Lessons from Island Studies: the Need to Conserve Sources -- Directions for Future Research of Island Butterflies -- Plates -- 1. Island Landscapes -- 2. Images of British Butterfly Species -- Appendices: Records of Butterflies from British and Irish Islands -- 1. Checklist of British and Irish Butterflies -- 2. Butterflies Occurring on the British and Irish Islands as Adventives (Accidental and Deliberate Introductions) -- 3. List of Butterflies on British and Irish Offshore Islands -- 4. Sources of Personal Observations on Island Records -- 5. Regional Atlases of British and Irish Butterflies -- 6. Migration Records and Measures for Butterfly Species Resident on the British and Irish Islands -- 7. Migration Capacity and Colonization Ability Measures for British Butterflies -- 8. A Brief Guide to Island Studies: Observations and Analysis -- 9. Predictions for Resident Butterfly Species in the British Isles -- 10. Factors Affecting Butterfly Species Richness on the Offshore British and Irish Islands -- 11. Summary of Predictions for Species Incidences on British and Irish Offshore Islands -- 12. Appendix 12. Butterflies Recorded on Strangford Lough Islands, Northern Ireland, During the Butterfly Conservation UK Big Butterfly Counts -- 13. Probabilities of Individual Butterfly Transfers to Islands and Locating a Resource on the Island -- 14. Species Richness and Species Occurrence Predictions for the Isle of Man -- 15. Modelling Evolutionary Changes on a Fossil Island: the Great Orme's Head, North Wales -- Glossary of Terms -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.

Islands are special places; they can be havens for unique plants and animals and refuges for wildlife. This book investigates the biogeography of butterfly species over the British islands, particularly the factors that influence their presence on the islands and that have made each island's butterfly fauna distinctive.

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