Species Explorer

Lepiota cingulum

Fahlbrauner Schirmling (Lepiota cingulum) is declining primarily due to habitat loss and degradation of its specialized grassland and woodland edge environments. Agricultural intensification, urban development, and changes in land management practices have significantly reduced the availability of suitable habitats for this fungal species.

Leptothrix hardyi

Primary threats to L. hardyi include habitat fragmentation due to logging and urban development, which disrupts the continuity of old-growth forest patches essential for population connectivity. Climate change poses additional pressure through altered precipitation patterns that affect the moisture-dependent microhabitats where this species establishes its webs.

Heliconia platystachys

Eucnemis capucina

The False click beetle (Eucnemis capucina) is critically endangered primarily due to the loss and degradation of its specialized habitat requirements in old-growth forests. This species depends on ancient woodland with specific deadwood characteristics, particularly old beech and oak trees with fungal decay, which have become increasingly rare due to intensive forest management and habitat fragmentation.

Arethusana arethusa

Sphecodes miniatus

The False Margined Blood Bee (Sphecodes miniatus) faces severe population declines primarily due to habitat loss and degradation of its specialized nesting sites and host plant communities. As a cleptoparasitic bee species that depends on specific host bees, it is particularly vulnerable to disruptions in the ecological relationships that support both its hosts and the flowering plants they depend on.

Coenonympha oedippus

Leptarthrus vitripennis

The False Slender-footed Robberfly faces severe population declines primarily due to habitat loss from urban development and agricultural expansion in its limited range. Climate change and pollution further threaten the specialized microhabitats this species requires for hunting and reproduction.

Garcia nutans

Garcia nutans faces severe population decline primarily due to extensive deforestation and habitat conversion for agricultural expansion and urban development across its limited range. The species' restricted distribution and small population size make it particularly vulnerable to habitat fragmentation and loss.

Rinodina pityrea

Cochylimorpha hilarana

Cochylimorpha hilarana, the wormwood conch moth, is critically endangered primarily due to habitat loss and degradation of its specialized host plant communities. The species depends on specific Artemisia (wormwood) species in fragmented dry grassland and steppe habitats that have declined dramatically due to agricultural intensification and land use changes.

Alucita grammodactyla

Dysmachus trigonus

Carphoborus rossicus

Metzneria santolinella

Metzneria santolinella is declining primarily due to habitat loss and degradation of its specialized coastal environments. The species faces particular pressure from coastal development, changes in land management practices, and the loss of its host plants in fragmented Mediterranean habitats.

Alchemilla faeroensis

Alchemilla faeroensis faces severe threats from habitat degradation due to overgrazing by sheep and cattle, which damages the fragile grassland communities where it grows. Climate change poses additional risks through altered precipitation patterns and temperature increases that may push this cold-adapted species beyond its tolerance limits.

Entoloma pseudocoelestinum

Fissidens crassipes

Fatfoot Pocket-moss (Fissidens crassipes) is critically endangered due to its extremely limited distribution and vulnerability to habitat disturbance. The species faces severe threats from human activities that alter its specialized microhabitat requirements, particularly in riparian and wetland environments where it occurs.

Agonum hypocrita

Agonum hypocrita, the fattigkärrlöpare, is critically endangered primarily due to habitat loss and degradation of its specialized wetland environments. The species depends on specific types of poor fens and marshy areas that have been severely reduced through drainage, agricultural conversion, and changes in water management practices.

Nesasio solomonensis

Maso gallicus

Primary threats include habitat fragmentation due to agricultural intensification and urban development across its limited range. Climate change is altering moisture regimes in its preferred microhabitats, while invasive plant species are disrupting the delicate soil chemistry conditions this species requires for reproduction.

Asplenium feei

Fee's Spleenwort faces severe population decline primarily due to habitat destruction from urban development and agricultural expansion in its limited range. The species' restricted distribution to specific rocky habitats makes it particularly vulnerable to localized threats and environmental changes.

Bovista graveolens

Bovista graveolens faces severe population decline primarily due to habitat loss from agricultural intensification and urban development of its specialized grassland ecosystems. The species requires specific soil conditions and undisturbed grassland habitats that are increasingly rare across its European range. Climate change and altered precipitation patterns further threaten the delicate ecological balance needed for this fungus to complete its reproductive cycle.

Cladonia phyllophora

Helvella macropus

Helvella macropus faces significant decline due to habitat loss from deforestation and land conversion, particularly affecting the old-growth and mature forest ecosystems it depends on. Climate change and pollution are additional stressors impacting this fungal species' specialized ecological requirements.

Uromyces gentianae

Hieracium femsioense

Hieracium femsioense is critically endangered due to its extremely limited distribution in a single location in Sweden, making it highly vulnerable to habitat disturbance and environmental changes. The species faces ongoing threats from human activities and natural processes that could easily lead to its extinction given its tiny population size and restricted range.

Elachista pomerana

The Fen Dwarf (Elachista pomerana) is primarily threatened by habitat loss and degradation of its specialized wetland environments. Drainage of fens and marshes for agriculture and development, along with changes in water management and pollution, have significantly reduced suitable habitat for this micro-moth species.

Cladonia parasitica

Fence-rail Cladonia (Cladonia parasitica) is critically endangered primarily due to habitat loss and degradation of its specialized coastal and inland sandy environments. The species faces severe pressure from urban development, recreational activities, and changes in natural disturbance regimes that maintain the open, nutrient-poor conditions it requires.

Cycas hainanensis

Cycas hainanensis faces severe population decline primarily due to habitat destruction from agricultural expansion and urban development on Hainan Island. The species is further threatened by over-collection for horticultural trade and traditional medicine, combined with its naturally restricted range and slow reproductive rate.

Leptidea morsei

Fenton's Wood White is critically endangered primarily due to habitat loss and fragmentation of its specialized woodland environments. The species requires specific host plants and microhabitat conditions that are increasingly rare due to forest management practices and land use changes.

Catapodium rigidum

Fern-grass (Catapodium rigidum) faces severe decline primarily due to habitat loss from coastal development, agricultural intensification, and urban expansion in its Mediterranean range. The species' specialized requirements for dry, rocky coastal habitats make it particularly vulnerable to human disturbance and climate change impacts.

Fumaria vaillantii

Few-flowered Fumitory (Fumaria vaillantii) is critically endangered primarily due to habitat loss from agricultural intensification and urban development. The species depends on disturbed soils and traditional farming practices that have largely disappeared, leading to severe population declines across its limited range.

Eleocharis quinqueflora

Fewflowered Spikesedge faces severe decline primarily due to habitat loss and degradation of its specialized wetland environments. Agricultural conversion, urban development, and water management practices have significantly reduced and fragmented the calcareous fens, wet meadows, and alkaline marshes this species requires.

Bromus arvensis

Field Brome is declining primarily due to agricultural intensification and changes in farming practices that have eliminated its traditional arable weed habitat. The species has suffered from improved seed cleaning techniques, herbicide use, and the shift away from traditional crop rotation systems that once provided suitable disturbed ground conditions.

Gryllus campestris

Elachista consortella

Geastrum campestre

Tephroseris integrifolia

Field Fleawort faces severe population declines primarily due to habitat loss and degradation of its specialized chalk grassland and limestone cliff environments. Agricultural intensification, urban development, and changes in traditional grazing practices have eliminated or altered much of its suitable habitat across its limited European range.

Allium oleraceum

Field Garlic faces severe population declines due to intensive agricultural practices that eliminate wild grassland habitats and widespread use of herbicides that target bulbous plants. Urban development and habitat fragmentation have further reduced suitable growing areas, while climate change threatens the specific temperature and moisture conditions this species requires for successful reproduction.

Trifurcula eurema

Trifurcula eurema, a leaf-mining moth species, faces severe population decline primarily due to habitat loss and degradation of its host plant communities. The species' highly specialized feeding requirements and limited geographic range make it particularly vulnerable to environmental changes and human disturbance.

Mannia triandra

Field Macewort (Mannia triandra) is critically endangered primarily due to habitat loss and degradation of its specialized wetland environments. The species requires very specific moisture and substrate conditions that are increasingly rare due to agricultural intensification, drainage of wetlands, and climate change impacts on hydrological cycles.

Stachys arvensis

Turdus pilaris

The Fieldfare is experiencing population declines primarily due to agricultural intensification and habitat loss across its breeding and wintering ranges. Climate change is altering the timing of food availability and weather patterns, while urbanization continues to fragment suitable habitat.

Pipreola chlorolepidota

Lymexylon navale

Lymexylon navale, the ship-timber beetle, faces severe population decline primarily due to habitat loss from deforestation and changes in forest management practices that have reduced availability of suitable dead and dying hardwood trees. The species' specialized requirements for specific types of decaying wood, particularly oak and beech, make it extremely vulnerable to modern forestry practices that remove dead timber. Climate change may further threaten remaining populations by altering forest composition and the availability of suitable breeding substrates.

Neriene radiata

The Filmy Dome Spider (Neriene radiata) faces severe threats primarily from habitat destruction and fragmentation of its specialized wetland and forest edge environments. Climate change and human development pressures continue to reduce the availability of suitable microhabitats required for this species' survival. The spider's extremely limited range and specific ecological requirements make it particularly vulnerable to environmental changes.

Hohenbuehelia valesiaca

Taraxacum subintegrum

Taraxacum subintegrum (filtmaskros) is critically endangered due to its extremely limited distribution in Scandinavia, where it faces habitat loss from agricultural intensification and urban development. The species is restricted to specific calcareous grassland habitats that are increasingly fragmented and degraded by human activities.

Lyophyllum tomentellum

Lyophyllum tomentellum faces severe population declines primarily due to habitat loss from agricultural expansion and urban development in its limited European range. The species' specialized ecological requirements and small, fragmented populations make it particularly vulnerable to environmental changes and human disturbance.