Sampling effort and common species: Optimizing surveys of understorey fruit-feeding butterflies in the Central Amazon
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.09.040
Abstract: Abstract Surveys on tropical invertebrates must gather as much information as possible over the shortest period, mainly because of financial limitations and hyperdiversity. Fruit-feeding butterflies in the subfamilies Biblidinae, Charaxinae, Nymphalinae and Satyrinae (Nymphalidae) are… read more here.
Keywords: information; common species; sampling effort; feeding butterflies ... See more keywords
The role of Eucalyptus planted forests for fruit-feeding butterflies' conservation in fragmented areas of the Brazilian Atlantic forest
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DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2018.09.017
Abstract: Abstract Large areas in tropical countries were converted into Eucalyptus plantations for pulp production. Although these plantations are structurally more similar to native ecosystems than traditional short-lived crops, they can be less suitable for more… read more here.
Keywords: fruit feeding; role eucalyptus; feeding butterflies; eucalyptus plantations ... See more keywords
Diversity of fruit-feeding butterflies in a mountaintop archipelago of rainforest
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0180007
Abstract: We provide the first description of the effects of local vegetation and landscape structure on the fruit-feeding butterfly community of a natural archipelago of montane rainforest islands in the Serra do Espinhaço, southeastern Brazil. Butterflies… read more here.
Keywords: diversity; fruit; butterfly; species richness ... See more keywords