The biodiversity quality of butterfly sites: A metadata assessment

Feest, Alan; Swaay, Chris van; Aldred, Timothy; Jedamzik, Katrin

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2010.09.006

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“…Insects are highly dependent on temperature for their poikilothermic properties and rapidly adapt and/ or migrate following changing thermal conditions due to their high mobility (Kiritani and Yukawa 2010;Feng et al 2011). Most butterflies rapidly respond to habitat and climate change due to their high fecundity and short generation time (Feest et al 2011). Butterflies have been most frequently studied to determine the impacts of climate change due to their popularity and well-known taxonomy, distribution, and ecology.…”

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Local change of butterfly species in response to global warming and reforestation in Korea

2013

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Background: It is expected that the successful nationwide reforestation and global warming will greatly change the butterfly fauna in South Korea. We compared current data (2002 to 2007) regarding the abundance and presence of butterfly species at two sites in the central portion of the Korean Peninsula with similar data from the late 1950s and early 1970s for the same sites. The expected changes were documented by an abundance change of butterflies at the two study sites in a previous study. Using the same data, the most greatly changed species and the change of species presence were analyzed. Results: Population changes of 99 butterfly species which occurred at both sites were significantly correlated between the two sites. The greatly increased species included three southern (S) species and one northern (N) species. However, the species showing great decline included five N species and no S species. Conclusions: This change is consistent with the expectation of northward movement of butterfly species due to global warming. The current status of the greatly changed species is discussed along with other studies. The binary data (presence/absence) in the present study support the expected changes of butterfly species based on global warming and reforestation. The interactive effect of two environmental changes was also recognized, as well as the change of abundance in the previous study.

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Local change of butterfly species in response to global warming and reforestation in Korea

2013

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“…This results from the different nitrogen sensitivity of the butterfly species in a species turnover situation induced by nitrogen deposition and population characteristics (SCVI, Biomass, Simpson) (see Fig.2.). As advocated by Feest and co-workers (Feest, 2006;Feest et al, 2010Feest et al, , 2011Feest et al, and 2012, this approach allows much greater understanding of the dynamics of biodiversity, in which nitrogen deposition is only one factor.…”

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“…NCLE is here defined as nitrogen deposition per 1x1 km modelled as deposition above background vegetation and geology accommodation levels and in this paper is measured as mol/ha/yr. Biodiversity quality of butterfly populations is used in the way described by Feest and colleagues (Feest, 2006;Feest et al, 2010Feest et al, , 2011Feest et al, and 2012 as the summation of the measured indices of characteristics of a population sampled in a standardised way. It is therefore expressed as a range of indices indicating the characteristics and thereby the quality of a butterfly population (see below).…”

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Nitrogen deposition and the reduction of butterfly biodiversity quality in the Netherlands

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Hinsberg

2014

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Abstract:Butterfly decline in Northern Europe is a cause of concern and it has been hypothesised that this is due to nitrogen deposition inducing excess early growth of plants. It has also been changing the quality of the food available to larvae. We tested these hypotheses by linking butterfly biodiversity quality indices (species richness, population, biomass, conservation value, evenness (Simpson's Index) and modelled species richness (Chao 1 and 2)) with Nitrogen Critical Load Exceedence (nCLE) data. An index of butterfly sensitivity to nitrogen was also created (SpeciesThe results included multiple biodiversity quality indices based on 17 years of data (aggregated into three periods of six, six and five years to give 287 datasets) in four habitat types (grassland, heathland, woodland and farmland) were tested for linkages using Principle Component Analysis. This analysis showed that all indices, including nitrogen deposition, were in decline, with the exception of SNVI.Analysis conducted on all four habitats showed that nitrogen deposition was in decline, except for heathland where the last 11 years did not show any significant decline. Heathland also showed an anomalous biodiversity quality profile for these last 11 years. It is suggested that the sensitivity of heathland to nitrogen deposition means that it will require considerable further efforts to achieve a nitrogen deposition that is not excessive.Restoration of all sites will take time due to the multiple hindrances to colonization, which in the case of heathland might prevent successful colonization for the foreseeable future. These results indicate the efficacy of butterfly biodiversity quality and nCLE as an indicators for the SEBI 2020 process (Streamlining European Biodiversity Indicators) by showing the relationship between them.

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“…While there is a general agreement that those groups should continue to be monitored (EEA technical report No 11/2012) (EEA (2005), the Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON), the European Biodiversity Observatory Network (EBON) (Reviewed in Scholes et al 2008) and many authors specialized in this field (De Baan et al 2012; Cardoso et al 2011; Feest 2013; Feest et al 2011) have recommended the survey and monitoring of additional groups to fill the taxonomic and ecological gaps.…”

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Biodiversity baseline of the French Guiana spider fauna

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The need for an updated list of spiders found in French Guiana rose recently due to many upcoming studies planned. In this paper, we list spiders from French Guiana from existing literature (with corrected nomenclature when necessary) and from 2142 spiders sampled in 12 sites for this baseline study. Three hundred and sixty four validated species names of spider were found in the literature and previous authors’ works. Additional sampling, conducted for this study added another 89 identified species and 62 other species with only a genus name for now. The total species of spiders sampled in French Guiana is currently 515. Many other Morphospecies were found but not described as species yet. An accumulation curve was drawn with seven of the sampling sites and shows no plateau yet. Therefore, the number of species inhabiting French Guiana cannot yet be determined. As the very large number of singletons found in the collected materials suggests, the accumulation curve indicates nevertheless that more sampling is necessary to discover the many unknown spider species living in French Guiana, with a focus on specific periods (dry season and wet season) and on specific and poorly studied habitats such as canopy, inselberg and cambrouze (local bamboo monospecific forest).

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The biodiversity quality of butterfly sites: A metadata assessment

Cited by 18 publications

References 30 publications

Local change of butterfly species in response to global warming and reforestation in Korea

Local change of butterfly species in response to global warming and reforestation in Korea

Nitrogen deposition and the reduction of butterfly biodiversity quality in the Netherlands

Biodiversity baseline of the French Guiana spider fauna

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