David Roy
My co-authors include
Dr Sven Bacher
Professor Tim M Blackburn
Professor Philip E Hulme
My Publications
Developing the global potential of citizen science: Assessing opportunities that benefi...
Journal of Applied Ecology
October 2018
Developing a framework of minimum standards for the risk assessment of alien species
Journal of Applied Ecology
November 2017
Native ladybird decline caused by the invasive harlequin ladybird Harmonia axyridis : e...
Insect Conservation and Diversity
October 2017
In the shadow of the condor: invasive Harmonia axyridis found at very high altitude in...
Insect Conservation and Diversity
September 2017
Socio-economic impact classification of alien taxa (SEICAT)
Methods in Ecology and Evolution
July 2017
Global trade networks determine the distribution of invasive non-native species
Global Ecology and Biogeography
June 2017
Urban indicators for UK butterflies
Ecological Indicators
May 2017
Efficient occupancy model-fitting for extensive citizen-science data
PLoS ONE
March 2017
Fifty years of the Biological Records Centre
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
June 2015
The contribution of volunteer recorders to our understanding of biological invasions
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
March 2015
Reconciling biodiversity and carbon conservation
Ecology Letters
December 2012
Population resilience to an extreme drought is influenced by habitat area and fragmenta...
Ecography
October 2012
Multi-generational long-distance migration of insects: studying the painted lady butter...
Ecography
October 2012
Uncertainty in thermal tolerances and climatic debt
Nature Climate Change
August 2012
Protected areas facilitate species’ range expansions
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
August 2012
Climatic Associations of British Species Distributions Show Good Transferability in Tim...
PLoS ONE
July 2012
Habitat associations of thermophilous butterflies are reduced despite climatic warming
Global Change Biology
June 2012
The role of the North Atlantic Oscillation in controlling U.K. butterfly population siz...
Ecological Entomology
May 2012
Temperature-Dependent Alterations in Host Use Drive Rapid Range Expansion in a Butterfly
Science
May 2012
Habitat associations of species show consistent but weak responses to climate
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
April 2012
Population density but not stability can be predicted from species distribution models
Journal of Applied Ecology
April 2012
Reduced variability in range-edge butterfly populations over three decades of climate w...
Global Change Biology
February 2012
Invasive alien predator causes rapid declines of native European ladybirds
Diversity and Distributions
February 2012
Differences in the climatic debts of birds and butterflies at a continental scale
Nature Climate Change
January 2012
Spatial covariation between freshwater and terrestrial ecosystem services
Ecological Applications
September 2011
Rapid Range Shifts of Species Associated with High Levels of Climate Warming
Science
August 2011
Inventory of terrestrial alien arthropod predators and parasites established in Europe
BioControl
August 2011
Balancing alternative land uses in conservation prioritization
Ecological Applications
July 2011
A novel parasitoid and a declining butterfly: cause or coincidence?
Ecological Entomology
March 2011
Measuring functional connectivity using long-term monitoring data
Methods in Ecology and Evolution
March 2011
The role of ‘Big Society’ in monitoring the state of the natural environment
Journal of Environmental Monitoring
January 2011
Habitat microclimates drive fine-scale variation in extreme temperatures
Oikos
December 2010
Error propagation associated with benefits transfer-based mapping of ecosystem services
Biological Conservation
November 2010
A new Red List of British butterflies
Insect Conservation and Diversity
October 2010
Butterfly abundance in a warming climate: patterns in space and time are not congruent
Journal of Insect Conservation
October 2010
Developing and launching a wider countryside butterfly survey across the United Kingdom
Journal of Insect Conservation
September 2010
The effects of habitat fragmentation on niche requirements of the marsh fritillary, Eup...
Journal of Insect Conservation
September 2010
Assessing the condition of lake habitats: a test of methods for surveying aquatic macro...
Hydrobiologia
September 2010
Synchrony of butterfly populations across species' geographic ranges
Oikos
September 2010
The development of butterfly indicators in the United Kingdom and assessments in 2010
Journal of Insect Conservation
September 2010
Turnover and trends in butterfly communities on two British tidal islands: stochastic i...
Journal of Biogeography
August 2010
Disentangling the role of environmental and human pressures on biological invasions acr...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
June 2010
How well do we understand the impacts of alien species on ecosystem services? A pan-Eur...
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
April 2010
Heterogeneous landscapes promote population stability
Ecology Letters
April 2010
The impact of proxy-based methods on mapping the distribution of ecosystem services
Journal of Applied Ecology
April 2010
Empirical realised niche models for British higher and lower plants - development and p...
Journal of Vegetation Science
March 2010
Representation of ecosystem services by tiered conservation strategies
Conservation Letters
February 2010
Trophic level asynchrony in rates of phenological change for marine, freshwater and ter...
Global Change Biology
January 2010
Plant extinctions and introductions lead to phylogenetic and taxonomic homogenization o...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
December 2009
Changes in habitat specificity of species at their climatic range boundaries
Ecology Letters
October 2009
Spatial covariance between biodiversity and other ecosystem service priorities
Journal of Applied Ecology
August 2009
Beyond biological control: non-pest insects and their pathogens in a changing world
Insect Conservation and Diversity
May 2009
Do urban areas act as foci for the spread of alien plant species? An assessment of temp...
Diversity and Distributions
March 2009
Surrogacy and persistence in reserve selection: landscape prioritization for multiple t...
Journal of Applied Ecology
February 2009
Changes in the composition of British butterfly assemblages over two decades
Global Change Biology
July 2008
The relative exploitation of annuals as larval host plants by European butterflies
Journal of Natural History
April 2008
Harmonia axyridis in Europe: spread and distribution of a non-native coccinellid
BioControl
November 2007
Harmonia axyridis in Great Britain: analysis of the spread and distribution of a non-na...
BioControl
November 2007
Reduced-effort schemes for monitoring butterfly populations
Journal of Applied Ecology
October 2007
The changing status of the Chalkhill Blue butterfly Polyommatus coridon in the UK: the ...
Journal of Insect Conservation
July 2007
Government targets for protected area management: will threatened butterflies benefit?
Biodiversity and Conservation
June 2007
DIRECT AND INDIRECT EFFECTS OF CLIMATE AND HABITAT FACTORS ON BUTTERFLY DIVERSITY
Ecology
March 2007
Declines in forage availability for bumblebees at a national scale
Biological Conservation
October 2006
Altered geographic and temporal variability in phenology in response to climate change
Global Ecology and Biogeography
September 2006
Impacts of climate warming and habitat loss on extinctions at species' low-latitude ran...
Global Change Biology
August 2006
Species richness changes lag behind climate change
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
June 2006
The effects of visual apparency on bias in butterfly recording and monitoring
Biological Conservation
April 2006
The distributions of a wide range of taxonomic groups are expanding polewards
Global Change Biology
March 2006
Methods for targeting the restoration of grazing marsh and wet grassland communities at...
Journal for Nature Conservation
January 2006
Does diet breadth control herbivorous insect distribution size? Life history and resour...
Journal of Insect Conservation
September 2005
Grazing management of calcareous grasslands and its implications for the conservation o...
Biological Conservation
September 2005
Effects on weed and invertebrate abundance and diversity of herbicide management in gen...
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
March 2005
A northward shift of range margins in British Odonata
Global Change Biology
March 2005
The influence of temperature on migration of Lepidoptera into Britain
Global Change Biology
March 2005
Spatial patterns in species distributions reveal biodiversity change
Nature
November 2004
Occurrence of epiphytic bryophytes in a 'tetrad' transect across southern Britain. 2. A...
Journal of Bryology
September 2004
Comparative Losses of British Butterflies, Birds, and Plants and the Global Extinction ...
Science
March 2004
Host plants and butterfly biology. Do host-plant strategies drive butterfly status?
Ecological Entomology
February 2004
Invertebrate responses to the management of genetically modified herbicide-tolerant and...
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
November 2003
Invertebrates and vegetation of field margins adjacent to crops subject to contrasting ...
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
November 2003
On the rationale and interpretation of the Farm Scale Evaluations of genetically modifi...
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
November 2003
Responses of plants and invertebrate trophic groups to contrasting herbicide regimes in...
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
November 2003
Weeds in fields with contrasting conventional and genetically modified herbicide-tolera...
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
November 2003
Spatial trends in the sighting dates of British butterflies
International Journal of Biometeorology
August 2003
An introduction to the Farm-Scale Evaluations of genetically modified herbicide-toleran...
Journal of Applied Ecology
February 2003
Plant traits as predictors of performance in ecological restoration
Journal of Applied Ecology
February 2003
Hemeroby, urbanity and ruderality: bioindicators of disturbance and human impact
Journal of Applied Ecology
October 2002
Nature
November 2001
Application of generalized additive models to butterfly transect count data
Journal of Applied Statistics
September 2001
Density-distribution relationships in British butterflies. I. The effect of mobility an...
Journal of Animal Ecology
May 2001
Butterfly numbers and weather: predicting historical trends in abundance and the future...
Journal of Animal Ecology
March 2001
A method for estimating the extent of standing fresh waters of different trophic states...
Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
January 2001
Journal of Insect Conservation
January 2001
Phenology of British butterflies and climate change
Global Change Biology
April 2000
Extending Ellenberg's indicator values to a new area: an algorithmic approach
Journal of Applied Ecology
February 2000
Integrating species and habitat data for nature conservation in Great Britain: data sou...
Global Ecology and Biogeography
September 1999
Scope for strategic ecological assessment of trunk-road development in England with res...
Journal of Environmental Management
June 1998
Critical loads for nitrogen deposition for Great Britain
Water Air & Soil Pollution
December 1995