Impacts of land use change on native plant-butterfly interaction networks from central Mexico.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Land use change is a key catalyst of global biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation. Deforestation and conversion of natural habitats to agricultural or urban areas can profoundly disrupt plant-flower visitor interactions by altering their abundances and distribution. Yet, specific studies analyzing the effects of land use change on the structure of networks of the interactions between particular groups of flower visitors and their plants are still scarce. Here, we aimed to analyze how converting native habitats affects the species composition of butterfly communities and their plants, and whether this, in turn, leads to changes in the structure of interaction networks in the modified habitats.

Methods

We performed bi-monthly censuses for a year to record plan

SUBMITTER: Munoz-Galicia D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10576501 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature