Published work using data from DBIF

This list shows the range of studies, in conservation and pure and applied research, which have used DBIF data.

In addition, the DBIF data were used as source material when Lena Ward was the principal referee for herbivore interactions in the Journal of Ecology’s ‘Biological Flora of the British Isles’ series.

Bodsworth, E., Shepherd, P. & Plant, C., 2005. Exotic plant species on brownfield land: their value to invertebrates of nature conservation importance. English Nature Research Reports No. 650. English Nature, Peterborough.

Fraser, S.M. & Lawton, J.H., 1994. Host range expansion by British moths onto introduced conifers. Ecological Entomology 19: 127-137.

Gange, A.C., Stagg, P.G., Ward, L.K., 2002. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi affect phytophagous insect specialism. Ecology Letters 5: 11-15.

Hawkins, B.A., 1988. Species-diversity in the 3rd and 4th trophic levels- patterns and mechanisms. Journal of Animal Ecology 57: 137-162.

Jefferson, R., 2004. Insects and fleshy fruits. British Wildlife 16: 95-103.

Jones, C.G. & Lawton, J.H., 1991. Plant chemistry and insect species richness of British umbellifers. Journal of Animal Ecology 60: 767-777.

Marshall, E.J.P., Brown, V.K., Boatman, N.D., Lutman, P.J.W., Squire, G.R., Ward, L.K., 2003 The role of weeds in supporting biological diversity within crop fields Weed Research 43: 77-89.

Mortimer, S.R., Turner, A.J., Brown, V.K., Fuller, R.J., Good, J.E.G., Bell, S.A., Stevens, P.A., Norris, D., Bayfield, N. & Ward, L.K., 2000. The Nature Conservation Value of Scrub in Britain. Joint Nature Conservation Committee Report, No. 308. JNCC, Peterborough.

Quinn, R.M., Gaston, K.J., Roy, D.B., 1997. Coincidence between consumer and host occurrence: macrolepidoptera in Britain. Ecological Entomology 22: 197-208.

Quinn, R.M., Gaston, K.J., Roy, D.B., 1998. Coincidence in the distributions of butterflies and their foodplants. Ecography 21: 279-288.

Ward, L.K., Hackshaw, A. & Clarke, R.T., 1995. Food-plant families of British insects and mites: the influence of life form and plant family. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 55: 109-127.

Ward, L.K., Hackshaw, A. & Clarke, R.T., 2003. Do food-plant preferences of modern families of phytophagous insects and mites reflect past evolution with plants? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 78: 51-83.

Ward, L.K. & Spalding, D.F., 1993. Phytophagous British insects and mites and their food-plant families: total numbers and polyphagy. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 49: 257-276.

Warren, P.H., 1993. Insect herbivory on water mint: you can’t get there from here? Ecography 16: 11-15.