Climate and land-use interactively shape butterfly diversity in tropical rainforest and savanna ecosystems of southwestern China.
butterfly diversity
climate change
conservation
habitat conversion
savanna
tropical rainforest
Journal
Insect science
ISSN: 1744-7917
Titre abrégé: Insect Sci
Pays: Australia
ID NLM: 101266965
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Aug 2021
Aug 2021
Historique:
revised:
03
05
2020
received:
17
02
2020
accepted:
17
05
2020
pubmed:
27
5
2020
medline:
10
8
2021
entrez:
27
5
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Human-induced habitat conversion and degradation, along with accelerating climatic change, have resulted in considerable global biodiversity loss. Nevertheless, how local ecological assemblages respond to the interplay between climate and land-use change remains poorly understood. Here, we examined the effects of climate and land-use interactions on butterfly diversity in different ecosystems of southwestern China. Specifically, we investigated variation in the alpha and beta diversities of butterflies in different landscapes along human-modified and climate gradients. We found that increasing land-use intensity not only caused a dramatic decrease in butterfly alpha diversity but also significantly simplified butterfly species composition in tropical rainforest and savanna ecosystems. These findings suggest that habitat modification by agricultural activities increases the importance of deterministic processes and leads to biotic homogenization. The land-use intensity model best explained species richness variation in the tropical rainforest, whereas the climate and land-use intensity interaction model best explained species richness variation in the savanna. These results indicate that climate modulates the effects of land-use intensity on butterfly alpha diversity in the savanna ecosystem. We also found that the response of species composition to climate varied between sites: specifically, species composition was strongly correlated with climatic distance in the tropical rainforest but not in the savanna. Taken together, our long-term butterfly monitoring data reveal that interactions between human-modified habitat change and climate change have shaped butterfly diversity in tropical rainforest and savanna. These findings also have important implications for biodiversity conservation under the current era of rapid human-induced habitat loss and climate change.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32453476
doi: 10.1111/1744-7917.12824
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1109-1120Subventions
Organisme : Biodiversity Conservation Program of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, China
Organisme : Biodiversity Survey and Assessment Project of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, China
ID : 2019HJ2096001006
Organisme : CAS 135 program
ID : 2017XTBG-F01
Informations de copyright
© 2020 Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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