Monitoring regulated quarantine plant pathogens and, when relevant, their vectors is compulsory in the European Union. Local Monochamus species (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) vector the pine wood nematode, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus , a non-native pest already established in most of Portugal. Only 29 M. galloprovincialis individuals were trapped in Belgium in ten years (2013–2022), despite a dense coverage of pheromone-baited trap...

Chromosomal inversions are often thought to facilitate local adaptation and population divergence because they can link multiple adaptive alleles into non‐recombining genomic blocks. Selection should thus be more efficient in driving inversion‐linked adaptive alleles to high frequency in a population, particularly in the face of maladaptive gene flow. But what if ecological conditions and hence selection on inversion‐linked al...

Bluetongue ( BT ) is a commonly cited example of a disease with a distribution believed to have recently expanded in response to global warming. The BT virus is transmitted to ruminants by biting midges of the genus C ulicoides , and it has been hypothesized that the emergence of BT in Mediterranean Europe during the last two decades is a consequence of the recent colonization of the region by C ulicoides imicola and linked to...

Ecology Letters (2010) Abstract Environmental managers must decide how to invest available resources. Researchers have previously determined how to allocate conservation resources among regions, design nature reserves, allocate funding to species conservation programs, design biodiversity surveys and monitoring programs, manage species and invest in greenhouse gas mitigation schemes. However, these issues have not been address...

Aim We evaluate differences between and the applicability of three linear predictive models to determine butterfly hotspots in Belgium for nature conservation purposes. Location The study is carried out in Belgium for records located to Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) grid cells of 5 × 5 km. Methods We first determine the relationship between factors correlated to butterfly diversity by means of modified t ‐tests and princ...