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Overview

Dirk Maes is affiliated with the Research Institute for Nature and Forest in Belgium. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

Their work explores various subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecology.

Key research topics addressed by Dirk Maes encompass:

  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Entomological Studies and Ecology
  • Botany and Plant Ecology Studies

Dirk Maes has contributed to several scholarly publications with notable examples including:

  • The decline of butterflies in Europe: Problems, significance, and possible solutions, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Solutions for humanity on how to conserve insects, 2020, Biological Conservation
  • The neglected impact of tracking devices on terrestrial arthropods, 2020, Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Comment on "Meta-analysis reveals declines in terrestrial but increases in freshwater insect abundances", 2020, Science
  • The impact of data quality filtering of opportunistic citizen science data on species distribution model performance, 2021, Ecological Modelling

The frequent co-authors working with Dirk Maes include:

  • Kristijn RR Swinnen
  • Marc Herremans
  • Wim Veraghtert
  • Pieter Vanormelingen
  • Karin Gielen

Regarding publication venues, Dirk Maes has often published in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Insect Conservation
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Insect Conservation and Diversity
  • Radboud Repository (Radboud University)

Best Publications

  • European Red List of Butterflies

    Chris van Swaay;Annabelle Cuttelod;Sue Collins;Dirk Maes

  • Species richness declines and biotic homogenisation have slowed down for NW-European pollinators and plants

    Luísa Gigante Carvalheiro;Luísa Gigante Carvalheiro;William E. Kunin;Petr Keil;Petr Keil;Jesus Aguirre-Gutiérrez

  • Butterfly diversity loss in Flanders (north Belgium): Europe's worst case scenario?

    Dirk Maes;Hans Van Dyck

  • The harlequin ladybird, Harmonia axyridis: global perspectives on invasion history and ecology

    Helen E. Roy;Pëter M.J. Brown;Tim Adriaens;Nick Berkvens

  • The decline of butterflies in Europe: Problems, significance, and possible solutions.

    Martin S. Warren;Dirk Maes;Chris A. M. van Swaay;Philippe Goffart

  • Invasive alien predator causes rapid declines of native European ladybirds

    Helen E. Roy;Tim Adriaens;Nick J. B. Isaac;Marc Kenis

  • Declines in common, widespread butterflies in a landscape under intense human use.

    Hans Van Dyck;Arco J. Van Strien;Dirk Maes;Dirk Maes;Chris A. M. Van Swaay

  • Solutions for humanity on how to conserve insects

    Michael J Samways;Philip S. Barton;Klaus Birkhofer;Filipe Chichorro

  • The lost generation hypothesis: could climate change drive ectotherms into a developmental trap ?

    Hans Van Dyck;Dries Bonte;Rik Puls;Karl Gotthard

  • Clean Intermittent Self-Catheterization: a 12-Year Followup

    Jean-Jacques Wyndaele;Dirk Maes

  • Invasion history, habitat preferences and phenology of the invasive ladybird Harmonia axyridis in Belgium.

    Tim Adriaens;Gilles San Martin y Gomez;Dirk Maes

  • The use of opportunistic data for IUCN Red List assessments

    Dirk Maes;Nick J. B. Isaac;Colin A. Harrower;Ben Collen

  • Habitat quality and biodiversity indicator performances of a threatened butterfly versus a multispecies group for wet heathlands in Belgium

    Dirk Maes;Hans Van Dyck

  • Applying IUCN criteria to invertebrates: How red is the Red List of European butterflies?

    C van Swaay;Dirk Maes;Dirk Maes;S Collins;M. L Munguira;M. L Munguira

  • Transferability of species distribution models: a functional habitat approach for two regionally threatened butterflies.

    Wouter Vanreusel;Wouter Vanreusel;Dirk Maes;Hans Van Dyck

  • The Multicoloured Asian Ladybird Harmonia axyridis Pallas (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), a threat for native aphid predators in Belgium?

    Tim Adriaens;Etienne Branquart;Dirk Maes

  • The benthic macrofauna along the estuarine gradient of the Schelde estuary

    Tom Ysebaert;Tom Ysebaert;Patrick Meire;Dirk Maes;J Buijs

  • Functional conservation units for the endangered Alcon Blue butterfly Maculinea alcon in Belgium (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)

    Dirk Maes;Wouter Vanreusel;Willem Talloen;Hans Van Dyck

  • Applying species distribution modelling for the conservation of the threatened saproxylic Stag Beetle (Lucanus cervus)

    Arno Thomaes;Thierry Kervyn;Dirk Maes

  • Is biofuel policy harming biodiversity in Europe

    Jeannette Eggers;Katja Tröltzsch;Alessandra Falcucci;Luigi Maiorano

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans Van Dyck
Hans Van Dyck Université Catholique de Louvain
Josef Settele
Josef Settele Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Chris van Swaay
Chris van Swaay Butterfly Conservation
Dries Bonte
Dries Bonte Ghent University
David B. Roy
David B. Roy UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Marc Kenis
Marc Kenis CAB International
Constantí Stefanescu
Constantí Stefanescu Autonomous University of Barcelona
Helen E. Roy
Helen E. Roy Anglia Ruskin University
Tom Brereton
Tom Brereton Butterfly Conservation
René Eschen
René Eschen CAB International

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