Courses
News reports
- BBC News report on the Banking on Butterflies project (2021)
- E-shaped banks built in Bedfordshire to help rare butterflies (2021)
- Butterfly temperature research 'could boost survival chances' (2019)
Podcasts episodes
- Mongabay: Examining ‘What Works in Conservation’ (2021)
- The Naked Scientists: Bird species losing ground in Ethiopia (2021)
- The Naked Scientists: Gardens, Plants and Climate Change (2020)
Online research articles
- Spanish butterflies better at regulating their body temperature than their British cousins (2024)
- Small-winged and lighter coloured butterflies likely to be at greatest threat from climate change (2023)
- Tropical butterflies’ wings could help them withstand climate change, study suggests (2023)
- Birds Are Disappearing in East Africa — And It Isn’t Just Because of Climate Change (2022)
- These birds will soon go extinct. But their disappearance need not be in vain (2021)
- Provide shady spots to protect butterflies from climate change (2020)
- The butterflies are coming (2019)
Online research blogs
- Conservation Evidence blog: “1,000 pages of evidence for conservation actions” (2021)
- Conservation Evidence blog: “Looking out for the little things” (2021)
- Animal Ecology in Focus: “How butterflies keep their cool: taking butterfly temperatures to understand the impacts of climate change” (2020)
- Wildlife Trust Monitoring and Research blog: “How hot is that butterfly?” (2019)
- #theBOUblog: “High temperatures and hot birds” (2018)
Podcast
Selected publications
- Bladon AJ, Cooke R, Millard J & Outhwaite CL (2024) Practical solutions to climate change for insect conservation. Chapter 9 in: Pryke JS, Samways MJ, New TR, Cardoso P & Gaigher R (eds) Routledge Handbook of Insect Conservation, Routledge, Oxfordshire, UK. Pages 108–118. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003285793-10
- Outhwaite CL, Cooke R, Millard J & Bladon AJ (2024) Pervasive and synergistic effects of climate change. Chapter 8 in: Pryke JS, Samways MJ, New TR, Cardoso P & Gaigher R (eds) Routledge Handbook of Insect Conservation, Routledge, Oxfordshire, UK. Pages 92–107. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003285793-9
- Marshall CAM, Wade K, Kendall IS, Porcher H, Poffley J, Bladon AJ, Dicks LV & Treweek J (2024) England’s statutory biodiversity metric enhances plant, but not bird nor butterfly biodiversity. Journal of Applied Ecology, 61 (8), 1918–1931. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14697
- Ashe-Jepson E, Anderson J, Hitchcock GE, Wallis S, Wingader K, Bladon AJ & Turner EC (2024) Habitat associations of day-flying Lepidoptera and their foodplants within nature reserves in Bedfordshire, UK. Journal of Insect Conservation, 28, 891–908. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-024-00554-7
- Hayes MP, Ashe-Jepson E, Hitchcock GE, Clark R, Hellon J, Knock RI, Bladon AJ & Turner EC (2024) Heatwave predicts a shady future for insects: impacts of an extreme weather event on a chalk grassland in Bedfordshire, UK. Journal of Insect Conservation, 28, 923–933. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-024-00556-5
- Toro-Delgado E, Vila R, Talavera G, Turner EC, Hayes MP, Horrocks NPC & Bladon AJ (2024) Regional differences in thermoregulation between two European butterfly communities. Journal of Animal Ecology, 93 (2), 183–195. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.14039
- Ashe-Jepson E, Bru E, Connell E, Dixit MK, Hargrave J, Lavitt T, Lam M, Prosser R, Roberts BJ, Thompson B, Bladon AJ & Turner EC (2024) Hot topics in butterfly research: Current knowledge and gaps in understanding of the impacts of temperature on butterflies. Insect Conservation and Diversity, 17 (1), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12704
- Ashe-Jepson E, Hayes MP, Hitchcock GE, Wingader K, Turner EC & Bladon AJ (2023) Day-flying Lepidoptera larvae have a poorer ability to thermoregulate than adults. Ecology and Evolution, 13 (10), e10623. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10623
- Ashe-Jepson E, Arizala Cobo S, Basset Y, Bladon AJ, Kleckova I, Laird-Hopkins BC, Mcfarlane A, Sam K, Savage AF, Zamora AC, Turner EC & Lamarre GPA (2023) Tropical butterflies use thermal buffering and thermal tolerance as alternative strategies to cope with temperature increase. Journal of Animal Ecology, 92 (9), 1759–1770. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13970
- Laird-Hopkins BC*, Ashe-Jepson E*, Basset Y, Arizala Cobo S, Eberhardt L, Freiberga I, Hellon J, Hitchcock GE, Kleckova I, Linke D, Lamarre GPA, McFarlane A, Savage AF, Turner EC, Zamora AC, Sam K & Bladon AJ (2023) Thermoregulatory ability and mechanism do not differ consistently between neotropical and temperate butterflies.Global Change Biology, 29 (15), 4180–4192.https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16797
- Sharps E*, Hawkes RW*, Bladon AJ, Buckingham DL, Border J, Morris AJ, Grice PV & Peach WJ (2023) Reversing declines in farmland birds: How much agri-environment provision is needed at farm and landscape scales? Journal of Applied Ecology, 60 (4), 568–580. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14338
- Bladon AJ, Bladon EK, Smith RK & Sutherland WJ (2023) Butterfly and Moth Conservation: Global Evidence for the Effects of Interventions for butterflies and moths. Conservation Evidence Series Synopsis. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. https://www.conservationevidence.com/synopsis/pdf/37
- Sutherland WJ, Robinson JM, Aldridge DC, Alamenciak T, Armes M, Baranduin N, Bladon AJ, Breed MF, Dyas N, Elphick CS, Griffiths RA, Hughes J, Middleton B, Littlewood NA, Mitchell R, Morgan WH, Mosley R, Petrovan SO, Prendergast K, Ritchie EG, Raven H, Smith RK, Watts SH & Thornton A (2022) Creating testable questions in practical conservation: a process and 100 questions. Conservation Evidence Journal, 19, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.52201/CEJ19XIFF2753
- Ashe-Jepson E, Bladon AJ, Herbert G, Hitchcock GE, Knock R, Lucas CB, Luke SH & Turner EC (2022) Oviposition behaviour and emergence through time of the small blue butterfly (Cupido minimus) in a nature reserve in Bedfordshire, UK. Journal of Insect Conservation, 26, 43–58. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-021-00360-5
- Christie AP, White TB, Martin PA, Petrovan SO, Bladon AJ, Bowkett AE, Littlewood NA, Mupepele AC, Rocha R, Sainsbury KA, Smith RK, Taylor NG & Sutherland WJ (2021) Reducing publication delay to improve the efficiency and impact of conservation science. PeerJ, 9:e12245. https://peerj.com/articles/12245
- Amano T, Berdejo-Espinola V, Christie AP, Willott K, Akasaka M, Báldi A, Berthinussen A, Bertolino S, Bladon AJ, Chen M, Choi C-Y, Bou Dagher Kharrat M, de Oliveira LG, Farhat P, Golivets M, Hidalgo Aranzamendi N, Jantke K, Kajzer-Bonk J, Kemahlı Aytekin MÇ, Khorozyan I, Kito K, Konno K, Lin D-L, Littlewood N, Liu Y, Liu Y, Loretto M-C, Marconi V, Martin PA, Morgan WH, Narváez-Gómez JP, Negret PJ, Nourani E, Ochoa Quintero JM, Ockendon N, Oh RRY, Petrovan SO, Piovezan-Borges AC, Pollet IL, Ramos DL, Reboredo Segovia AL, Rivera-Villanueva AN, Rocha R, Rouyer M-M, Sainsbury KA, Schuster R, Schwab D, Şekercioğlu ÇH, Seo H-M, Shackelford G, Shinoda Y, Smith RK, Tao S-d, Tsai M-s, Tyler EHM, Vajna F, Valdebenito JO, Vozykova S, Waryszak P, Zamora-Gutierrez V, Zenni RD, Zhou W & Sutherland WJ (2021) Tapping into non-English-language science for the conservation of global biodiversity. PLoS Biology, 19:e3001296. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001296
- Sutherland WJ, Taylor NG, Aldridge DC, Martin P, Rhodes C, Shackelford G, Beard S, Belfield H, Bladon AJ, Brick C, Burgman M, Christie AP, Dicks LV, Dobson AP, Downey H, Hood ASC, Hua F, Hughes AC, Jarvis RM, MacFarlane D, Morgan WH, Mupepele AC, Marciniak SJ, Nelson C, O'hEigeartaigh S, Rios-Rojas C, Savolainen R, Sainsbury KA, Smith RK, Sundaram LS, Tankard H, Thornton A, Watkins J, White TB, Willott K & Petrovan SO (2021) A solution scan of societal options to reduce transmission and spread of respiratory viruses: SARS-CoV-2 as a case study. Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity, 3 (2): 84–90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobb.2021.08.003
- Petrovan SO, Aldridge DC, Bartlett H, Bladon AJ, Booth H, Broad S, Broom DM, Burgess ND, Cleaveland S, Cunningham AA, Ferri M, Hinsley A, Hua F, Hughes AC, Jones K, Kelly M, Mayes G, Radakovic M, Ugwu CA, Uddin N, Verissimo D, Walzer C, White TB, Wood JL & Sutherland WJ (2021) Post COVID-19: a solution scan of options for preventing future zoonotic epidemics. Biological Reviews, 96 (6): 2694–2715. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12774
- Hayes MP, Ashe-Jepson E, Hitchcock GE, Knock RI, Lucas CBH, Bladon AJ & Turner EC (2021) Consistent oviposition preferences of the Duke of Burgundy butterfly over 14 years on a chalk grassland reserve in Bedfordshire, UK.Journal of Insect Conservation, 25, 611–628. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-021-00327-6
- Bladon AJ, Donald PF, Collar NJ, Deng J, Dadacha G, Wondafrash M & Green RE (2021) Climatic change and extinction risk of two globally threatened Ethiopian endemic bird species. PLoS ONE, 16(5): e0249633. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249633
- Bladon AJ, Lewis M, Bladon EK, Buckton S, Corbett S, Ewing SR, Hayes MP, Hitchcock GE, Knock RI, Lucas CBH, McVeigh A, Menéndez R, Walker J, Fayle T & Turner EC (2020) How butterflies keep their cool: physical and ecological traits influence thermoregulatory ability and population trends. Journal of Animal Ecology, 89 (11), 2440–2450. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13319
- Littlewood NA, Rocha R, Smith RK, Martin PA, Lockhart SL, Schoonover RF, Wilman E, Bladon AJ, Sainsbury K, Pimm S & Sutherland WJ (2020) Terrestrial Mammal Conservation: Global Evidence for the Effects of Interventions for terrestrial mammals excluding bats and primates. Synopses of Conservation Evidence Series. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. https://www.conservationevidence.com/synopsis/pdf/20
- Bladon AJ & Smith RK (2019) Effects of conservation interventions on terrestrial and freshwater invertebrates: a protocol for subject-wide evidence synthesis. https://www.conservationevidence.com/protocol/pdf/28
- Bladon AJ, Donald PF, Jones SEI, Collar NJ, Deng J, Dadacha G, Abebe Y & Green RE (2019) Behavioural thermoregulation and climatic range restriction in the globally threatened Ethiopian Bush-crow Zavattariornis stresemanni. Ibis,161, 546-558. https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12660
- Simmons BI, Balmford AP, Bladon AJ, Christie AP, De Palma A, Dicks LV, Gallego-Zamorano J, Johnston A, Martin PA, Purvis A, Rocha R, Wauchope HS, Wordley CFR, Worthington TA & Finch T (2019) Worldwide insect declines: an important message, but interpret with caution. Ecology and Evolution, 9, 3678–3680. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5153
- Bladon AJ, Morris AJ, Siriwardena G & Peach WJ (2018) Evaluating the farm-scale responses of birds to Higher Level Stewardship (HLS) 2008–2017. Natural England Report, LM0467.
- Bladon AJ, Morris AJ, Grice PV, Phillips J & Peach WJ (2018) Selective use of bespoke habitat management areas by target farmland bird species. Aspects of Applied Biology, 139, Ecosystem and Habitat Management: Research, Policy, Practice, 3–14. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330011358_Selective_use_of_bespoke_habitat_management_areas_by_target_farmland_bird_species
- Bramer I, Anderson BJ, Bennie J, Bladon AJ, De Frenne P, Hemming D, Hill RA, Kearney MR, Korner C, Korstjens AH, Lenoir J, Maclean IMD, Marsh CD, Morecroft MD, Ohlemuller R, Slater HD, Suggitt AJ, Zellweger F & Gillingham PK (2018) Advances in monitoring and modelling climates at ecologically relevant scales. Advances in Ecological Research, 58, 101–161. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.aecr.2017.12.005
- Jones SEI, Bladon AJ, Collar NJ, Dadacha G, Denge J & Donald PF (2018) Varied diet and opportunistic foraging in the Ethiopian Bush-crow Zavattariornis stresemanni: an Endangered generalist. Ostrich, 89 (1): 41–46. https://doi.org/10.2989/00306525.2017.1373309
- Bladon AJ, Chown D, Peach WJ & Morris AJ (2017) Assessing the effectiveness of HLS agreements deploying the Farmland Bird Package 2011–2016. Natural England Report,LM0463.
- Bladon AJ (2017) The effects of temperature on the Ethiopian Bush-crow and White-tailed Swallow. PhD thesis. University of Cambridge, UK. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.13004
- Bladon AJ, Jones SEI, Collar NJ, Dellelegn Y, Donald PF, Gedeon K, Green RE, Spottiswoode CN, Töpfer T & Wondafrash M (2016) Further notes on the natural history of the Ethiopian Bush-crow Zavattariornis stresemanni.Bulletin of the African Bird Club, 23 (1): 27-45. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/253053
- Bladon AJ, Töpfer T, Collar NJ, Gedeon K, Donald PF, Dellelegn Y, Wondafrash M, Denge J, Dadacha G, Adula M & Green RE (2015) Notes on the behaviour, plumage and distribution of the White-tailed Swallow Hirundo megaensis.Bulletin of the African Bird Club, 22 (2): 148-161. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/253054
- Kirby WB, Bellamy PE, Stanbury AJ, Bladon AJ, Grice PV & Gillings S (2015) Breeding season habitat associations and population declines of British Hawfinches Coccothraustes coccothraustes. Bird Study, 62 (3): 348–357. https://doi.org/10.1080/00063657.2015.1046368