Butterfly Diversity: An Indicator for Environmental Health within Tarkwa Gold Mine, Ghana

Kyerematen, Rosina; Adu-Acheampong, Samuel; Acquah-Lamptey, Daniel; Sigismund, Roger Anderson; Owusu, Erasmus H.; Mantey, Jones

doi:10.5539/enrr.v8n3p69

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“…The present investigations recorded diversity indices of seventeen insect’s families with in six orders collected in treated traps suggested significant (P < 0.05) abundance ranged 24.70–77.78%. These results are in agreement with the scientists who reported that the insect populations of Noctuidae, Pieridae, Lycaenidae, Nymphalidae, Hesperiidae families increased by sugar fermented traps [ 30 , 67 , 68 ]. Our results suggested that the height of webs (Fig.…”

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Species diversity of different insect families trapped under beer-based volatile fermentation

Iqbal

Feng

2020

BMC Chemistry

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Background Insect species composition is an important phenomenon playing a significant role in the ecosystem. Chemical control of insects and pests releases toxic materials to the environment. These chemicals are dangerous to human populations. In this situation, there is a dire need to develop strategies to overcome the haphazard use of chemicals. The present investigations were carried out to explore the diversity of different insects attracted through bait fermentation. Methods The traditionally prepared bait fermentation was used to attract different insect populations both in treated (traps installed near field crops) and control traps (traps installed near invasive weed). Abundance, evenness, richness and equitability of these trapped insects were calculated. The chemical screening of bait fermentation was done using Gas Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry (GC–MS). Results Significant difference ( P < 0.05) in abundance of insect populations was found in treated compared to control trap. The insects of Noctuidae family recorded high Shannon- Wiener’s diversity index followed by Muscidae. Margalef’s index was recorded maximum in the treated traps (10.77) compared to those of control (8.09). The yielded index indicated that maximum richness was found in bait treated compared to control. The Shannon’s equitability’s values were investigated higher in Noctuidae (1.48), while, maximum evenness was observed in Muscidae (2.05) in treated trap. This fermentation was dried at room temperature and ground at 0.1 micron size. Our result showed significant ( P < 0.05) effects of extraction times, with high yield in first extraction by polar solvents. Co - efficient of determination ( R 2 = 0.87) recorded similar results in both extractions, however high root mean square error (0.97) recorded with bait + distilled water solvent showed linear arc line gave better performance. Finally, this fermentation was analyzed using GC–MS and recorded volatile compounds that were involved in the attraction of major and minor pests. Conclusion Fermentation can help for the attraction of different families of insects of various crops. The field experiment suggested that this fermentation is economical, easily installed and consumed only 0.64 RMB/0.09 USD, including infrastructures per location. Bait fermentation is safe biochemical constituents and did not spread any toxic chemicals to the environment.

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Species diversity of different insect families trapped under beer-based volatile fermentation

Iqbal

Feng

2020

BMC Chemistry

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“…As a result, biomonitoring approaches have become more attractive for assessing the health of aquatic ecosystems because they are relatively cheaper. Biomonitoring is using sensitive species often referred to as indicator species for quantitative and or qualitative assessment of the performances of physical or biological systems (Wu et al, 2017;Zhou, Zhang, Fu, Shi, & Jiang, 2008) especially when they are affected by anthropogenic activities such as farming and mining (Adu-Acheampong, Bazelet, & Samways, 2016;Kyerematen et al, 2018a;Kyerematen, Kaiwa, Acquah-Lamptey, Adu-Acheampong, & Andersen, 2018b). Simple indices such as the presence or absence of a species, richness of a group or abundance of a species can be used as surrogates to measure pollution or change in conditions within riverine communities (D'costa, Shyama, Praveen Kumar, & Furtado, 2018;Łuczyńska, Paszczyk, & Łuczyński, 2018).…”

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Change in aquatic insect abundance: Evidence of climate and land-use change within the Pawmpawm River in Southern Ghana

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Kyerematen

Adu-Acheampong

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Cogent Environmental Science

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Insects are key indicators of change in the landscape. They are known to be sensitive to the environment and climate in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. A systemic way of monitoring river ecosystems response to land-use and climate change is critical although lacking in most West African countries. This study explored the taxonomic composition of insect assemblages within the Pawmpawm River to quantify the level of change (if any) in biodiversity of aquatic insects as evidence of a land-use and climate change in a 40-year interval. We collected insect larvae from river shores, edges, and riffles and compared diversity indices of collected samples with that of previous study conducted within the same study area 40 years earlier prior to the current study. Our results show that there were no significant differences in taxonomic diversity of aquatic insects between the two studies. This indicates that diversity of insects in the Pawmpawm River and its environment has not changed significantly in the past 40 years. However, there were significant reductions of individual insect numbers or abundances within the river and its environment giving an indication of a possible climate and land-use change

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“…The second site at Yawmatwa CREMA (YS2) was the most even (J' = 0.936) in terms of species distribution. (Larsen 1994(Larsen , 2006 Butterfly assemblage in an area is determined by vegetation cover and diversity of the vegetation present (Addo-Fordjour et al 2015;Kyerematen et al 2018;Serrat et al 2015;Ubach et al 2020). The ongoing initiative by the Netherlands Development Organization (SNV), to practice the Shaded Cocoa Agroforestry (SCAF), has provided vegetation cover and protected the habitats of species in these areas which probably has accounted for the high diversity of butterfly species here.…”

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“…Diversity indices were compared as a form of quantitative assessment of sites (Kyerematen et al 2018). The diversity of butterfly species was measured using the Shannon-Weiner Diversity Index.…”

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“…The relevance of these RBAs is that they only use a taxonomic group as an indicator of the site. Over the years, butterflies have been used to assess the health of pristine and anthropogenic ecosystems, and have been beneficially exploited to study numerous aspects of tropical forest ecology in natural, managed and degraded ecosystems (Kyerematen et al 2014(Kyerematen et al , 2018. Butterfly species are found in different types of habitats, depending on the ecology of the ecosystems.…”

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Rapid assessment of butterfly diversity of two proposed Community Resource Management Areas (CREMAs) in the Western North Region of Ghana: Implication for conservation

2020

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Abstract. Tettey CND, Anderson RS, Kyerematen R. 2020. Rapid assessment of butterfly diversity of two proposed Community Resource Management Areas (CREMAs) in the Western North Region of Ghana: Implication for conservation. Biodiversitas 21: 3699-3706. Community Resource Management Areas (CREMAs) are non-reserved land masses with local communities living in them that contain important components of biodiversity and are open to free access. Biodiversity in these off-reserve areas in Ghana is fast depleting due to unsustainable anthropogenic activities. The Rapid Biodiversity Assessment (RBA) method was conducted in the proposed Manzan and Yawmatwa CREMAs in Sefwi-Debiso; in the Western North Region of Ghana using butterflies as indicator taxa to estimate species richness and diversity in two proposed CREMAs to prioritize these rapidly diminishing forest areas for conservation. A total of 1,352 individual butterflies were recorded at the end of a two-week rapid assessment; with 83 species belonging to five families (Nymphalidae, Papilionidae, Pieridae, Lycaenidae, and Hesperiidae). The findings of the study revealed that 38.5% of the butterfly population belongs to species associated with severe forest disturbance; indicating that these ecosystems are gradually being threatened by ongoing anthropogenic activities. Management efforts aimed at butterfly conservation should be geared towards protecting these proposed CREMAs from excessive human disturbances.

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Butterfly Diversity: An Indicator for Environmental Health within Tarkwa Gold Mine, Ghana

Cited by 10 publications

References 43 publications

Species diversity of different insect families trapped under beer-based volatile fermentation

Species diversity of different insect families trapped under beer-based volatile fermentation

Change in aquatic insect abundance: Evidence of climate and land-use change within the Pawmpawm River in Southern Ghana

Rapid assessment of butterfly diversity of two proposed Community Resource Management Areas (CREMAs) in the Western North Region of Ghana: Implication for conservation

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