The shift towards “close-to-nature forestry” in Central Europe led to an area-wide decrease of open forest structures and a decline of many photophilous species or taxa. One of them, the endemic taxon Zygaena angelicae elegans , only occurs on the western margin of the Swabian Alb, Germany. Five of only 37 (mostly small) populations became extinct since 2000; hence, this evolutionary significant unit is at the verge of extinct...

Climate change has been suggested as an important human-induced driver for the ongoing sixth mass extinction. As a common response to climate change, and particularly global warming, species move toward higher latitudes or shift uphill. Furthermore, rapid climate change impacts the biotic interactions of species, particularly in the case of Zygaenid moths which exhibit high specialization in both habitat and host plant prefere...