Butterfly (Lepidoptera: Rhophalocera) diversity in Bukit Soga, the green lung of Batu Pahat, Malaysia

Rahman, Aqilah Awg Abdul; Mohamed, Maryati; Linatoc, Alona Cuevas

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“…Lastly, Papilionidae being the least diverse family (1; 6.7%) ( Figure 2). Family composition reported in Bukit Soga (Aqilah et al 2018) also showed similar distribution patterns. The collections were dominated by nymphalids as they are known as the most varied family with the largest subfamilies (Corbet and Pendlebury 1992).…”

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Butterfly as bioindicator for development of conservation areas in Bukit Reban Kambing, Bukit Belading and Bukit Tukau, Johor, Malaysia

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Abstract. Ismail N, Rahman A A A, Mohamed M, Abu Bakar M F, Tokiman L. 2020. Butterfly as bioindicator for development of conservation areas in Bukit Reban Kambing, Bukit Belading and Bukit Tukau, Johor, Malaysia. Biodiversitas 21: 334-344. Butterflies are often used as indicator surrogates to evaluate the quality of ecosystems. This is made possible due to their sensitive responses toward environmental fluctuations and habitat changes. Butterflies were collected opportunistically using aerial nets at three hill dipterocarp forests; Bukit Reban Kambing (BRK), Bukit Belading (BB) and Bukit Tukau (BT) of Johor, Malaysia from 8th to 11th March 2016. The objectives of this study are to provide a checklist of butterflies of the hills and evaluate habitat suitability in an effort to support the proposal to gazette the hills as part of the Gunung Ledang protected area. A total of 60 individuals belonging to 23 species, 21 genera, and five families were recorded. Comparing the three hills, BRK recorded the greatest individual and species numbers, followed by BT and BB. BRK recorded the highest Shannon diversity index, H’ (2.272) value, whereas BB presented the highest value of species evenness index, E’ (0.945). MaxEnt modeling of the butterflies in BRK, BB, and BT showed a network of high habitat suitability areas connecting Gunung Ledang and our sampling locations. Despite limited sampling effort, this baseline data could possibly strengthen the effort for gazettement and prevent further pressure from mining activity and land conversion.

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“…This indicates a need for further studies to ascertain the community dynamics of these insects especially relating to land protection categories. Although high abundance of butterflies was recorded in unprotected areas of the rain forest, butterfly larvae are dependent on plants and other forest resources (Aguirre‐Gutierrez et al, 2017; Rahman et al, 2002), which are abundant in sustainably managed forests. Our results show that both butterflies and flowering plants vary in species composition between PAs and unprotected areas, this suggests that unique communities of butterflies in PAs are supported by different communities of flowering plants compared to communities in unprotected areas.…”

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Open habitats in a tropical biodiversity hotspot support pollinator diversity in both protected and unprotected areas

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The biosphere is changing rapidly (Ellis et al., 2010) through anthropogenic activities that result in fragmentation and loss of natural habitats Harrison et al., 2017). These changes cause increasing threats to biodiversity, especially among species with ecological interactions such as pollinators, influencing the delivery of ecosystem services necessary for the maintenance of both natural and agricultural ecosystems (Brittain et al., 2013;CBD, 2018; IPBES, 2016). Anthropogenic factors such as habitat fragmentation affect the extent of natural habitat (Goulson et al., 2008) and habitat suitability for many species (Tscharntke et al., 2002). Consequently, to preserve local biodiversity and key ecosystem functions, protected areas (PAs) are established (Andam et al., 2008;Geldmann et al., 2013;Mukul et al., 2017). This is essential for the protection of biodiversity in highly diverse yet disturbance-sensitive ecosystems such as the tropical savanna and rain forest vegetation zones of Nigeria, where over half of the primary forest has been lost (FAO, 2015;Mfon et al., 2014). There is evidence of increasing threats to biodiversity from various anthropogenic factors in this region (BESNet, 2019;Kehinde et al., 2014); however, conservation planning has been hindered by a lack of adequate information on

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PrimaTourism: Preliminary Study on Activity Budget of Dusky leaf monkey Trachypithecus obscurus obscurus in Bukit Soga Perdana, Batu Pahat, Johor

Siti-Kauthar

Najmuddin

Md-Zain

et al. 2019

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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Dusky leaf monkey, Trachypithecus obscurus distributed throughout Peninsular Malaysia are currently under threats by agricultural land conversion, habitat fragmentation, pet trade and other anthropogenic development. Bukit Soga Perdana, Batu Pahat, Johor is an island forest surrounded by urban development and the populations are highly fragmented here. PrimaTourism is an alternative way to conserve primate species through the means of wildlife tourism. Thus, the aim for this study is to obtain the daily activity budget of T. obscurus in Bukit Soga Perdana to serve as foundation for PrimaTourism activities. Scan sampling method was employed in this study from November 2017 to February 2018 and a total of nine category of behaviours were recorded. Results indicated that T. obscurus spent most of the time moving, followed by feeding, resting, vocalization, agonistic and allomothering. These behaviours are largely influenced the surroundings such as presence or absence of humans. This study provide the first report on daily activity budget of dusky leaf monkey in Bukit Soga Perdana, not only to understand the behaviour of the species, but also as foundation to initiate PrimaTourism in the area.

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Butterfly (Lepidoptera: Rhophalocera) diversity in Bukit Soga, the green lung of Batu Pahat, Malaysia

Cited by 4 publications

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Butterfly as bioindicator for development of conservation areas in Bukit Reban Kambing, Bukit Belading and Bukit Tukau, Johor, Malaysia

Butterfly as bioindicator for development of conservation areas in Bukit Reban Kambing, Bukit Belading and Bukit Tukau, Johor, Malaysia

Open habitats in a tropical biodiversity hotspot support pollinator diversity in both protected and unprotected areas

PrimaTourism: Preliminary Study on Activity Budget of Dusky leaf monkey Trachypithecus obscurus obscurus in Bukit Soga Perdana, Batu Pahat, Johor

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