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Decline was rapid all across Central Europe.By 2020, there were three population systems in AT (
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, two at military training areas (MTA), one in a nature reserve); a single metapopulation occupying 8 steppe patches and covering two grid cells (area of 10 latitude and 6 longitude) in CZ (contrary to 106 cells in 19512000) (
<bibRefCitation author="Benes, J. &amp; M. Konvicka &amp; J. Dvorak &amp; Z. Fric &amp; Z. Havelda &amp; A. Pavlicko &amp; V. Vrabec &amp; Z. Weidenhoffer" box="[825,981,1815,1835]" pageId="6" pageNumber="7" refId="ref13115" refString="Benes, J., M. Konvicka, J. Dvorak, Z. Fric, Z. Havelda, A. Pavlicko, V. Vrabec, and Z. Weidenhoffer. 2002. Motyli Ceske republiky: Rozsireni a ochrana I, II. SOM, Praha." type="book" year="2002">Benes et al. 2002</bibRefCitation>
,
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); and about 21 cells in DE (as opposed to 40 after 2000, when it occupied only 13.5% of all DE historical records (
<bibRefCitation author="Reinhardt, R. &amp; A. Harpke &amp; S. Caspari &amp; M. Dolek &amp; E. Kuhn &amp; M. Musche &amp; R. Trusch &amp; M. Wiemers &amp; J. Settele" box="[990,1185,1874,1894]" pageId="6" pageNumber="7" refId="ref18364" refString="Reinhardt, R., A. Harpke, S. Caspari, M. Dolek, E. Kuhn, M. Musche, R. Trusch, M. Wiemers, and J. Settele. 2020. Verbreitungsatlas der tagfalter und widderchen deutschlands. Ulmer Eugen Verlag, Stuttgart." type="book" year="2020">Reinhardt et al. 2020</bibRefCitation>
) (
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).
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In DE after 2014, the observations came mainly from the metapopulation systems in the Rhön Mts (
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(
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), Unstrut Valley (
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), Ostalb (BadenWürttemberg), and a few scattered populations in
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. The decline is well documented in some areas. In
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, 33 sites were inventoried in 20072008 and positive records were obtained from seven of them, in very low densities (
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, 2008). The largest remaining population in
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inhabits a former MTA near Heidenheim (Weissenburg-Gunzenhausein), and there are further four isolated sites with small colonies. A monitoring program has been covering the four sites since 2012. At this site, goat grazing is now practiced on a three-cell rotation (
<bibRefCitation author="Geyer, A. &amp; O. Bock" box="[548,757,412,432]" pageId="7" pageNumber="8" refId="ref15162" refString="Geyer, A., and O. Bock. 2018. Umsetzung der Bayer. Biodiversitatsstrategie: Die Berghexe, C hazara briseis, bei Heidenheim (Lkr. WUG) und am Hesselberg (Lkr. Ansbach) in Mittelfranken. Report to Bayerisches Landesamt fur Umwelt (LfU), Augsburg." type="book" year="2018">Geyer and Böck 2018</bibRefCitation>
). In contrast to sheep herding, this grazing method maintains a short turf with exposed bedrock and does not impact larval mortality, owing to the nocturnality of the 3rd instar larvae (
<bibRefCitation author="Konigsdorfer, M." pageId="7" pageNumber="8" pagination="69 - 87" refId="ref16773" refString="Konigsdorfer, M. 1997. Die Berghexe (Chazara briseis L. Satyridae) in Schwaben und angrenzenden Gebieten. Ber. Naturw. Vereins Schwaben 100: 69 - 87." type="journal article" year="1997">Königsdorfer 1997</bibRefCitation>
). Transect counts fluctuate between the years around
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(
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). A population on the foreland of the Südliche Frankenalb (Southern Franconian
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), first observed in 2008 (
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), is still on the verge of extinction so that managers use a Robocut (a remote-controlled mulching vehicle with chain drive) to expose bedrock on selected slopes. The latest monitoring data show that in these newly established areas a few egg depositions have now taken place (
<bibRefCitation author="Geyer, A." box="[357,464,735,755]" pageId="7" pageNumber="8" refId="ref15114" refString="Geyer, A. 2020. Umsetzung der Bayer. Biodiversitatsstrategie: die Berghexe, Chazara briseis, bei Heidenheim (Lkr. WUG) und am Hesselberg (Lkr. Ansbach) in Mittelfranken. Report to Bayerisches Landesamt fur Umwelt (LfU), Augsburg." type="book" year="2020">Geyer 2020</bibRefCitation>
). The remaining three sites in the Südliche Frankenalb are pastures grazed three times per year, one inhabiting also a disused quarry. In
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(Ostalb), two metapopulation systems with originally 12 sites each have been managed for the benefit of the species since 1991. Scrub removal, adapted grazing, and recently small-scale soil disturbances are practiced there. As a result, both metapopulations persist with transect count numbers ≈
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in their core parts; nevertheless, this is much less than in the 1990s.
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A mark-recapture program in the last CZ metapopulation in České středohoří (Central Bohemian Uplands) estimated ≈2000 individuals inhabiting ten, then mostly unmanaged, steppe patches in 2006 (
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). Subsequent monitoring documented a steep decline, combated by the re-establishment of sheep grazing in spring and summer. This initially reduced forbs but not the coarse steppe grasses (
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patches utilized by the larvae (
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,
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). Since 2017, the grazing has been supplemented by manual mowing of the
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patches, litter removal, and patchy raking of the ground (
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).
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With the aim to restore the CZ metapopulation,
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breeding started in 2014 with
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from České středohoří, CZ, in a roofed semi-open facility. They oviposited on potted
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L. protected against predators and parasitoids. Grown-up larvae were transferred to 60 × 40 ×
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, but combined losses at eclosion, moltings, and pupation were ≈60%. Suspecting a genetic influence (inbreeding), we added two wild-caught individuals to the
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total), larvae (≈1,500), and adults (≈500) were annually transferred back to pre-managed peripheral patches near their original site, restoring two additional colonies. Further releases took place in Český kras (Bohemian Karst), a historically occupied region about
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to the SE: Zlatý kůň (2,000 eggs in 2017, failed to establish), Třesina (590 postwinter larvae in 2020, resulting in an adult population of ≈5060 individuals), and Radotín (350 postwinter larvae in
<date box="[1007,1109,178,198]" pageId="7" pageNumber="8" value="2020-04">April 2020</date>
, adult count ≈2030).
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also bred individuals from
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, AT
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(
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and
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), obtained in 2016, under identical conditions.
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fecundity per female was ≈450
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, with developmental failures.
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obtained stock (2017:
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,
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; 2018: ≈
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), a site historically connected with the AT localities and prepared by targeted management, but the attempts failed
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.
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