Seasonality and landscape characteristics impact species community structure and temporal dynamics of East African butterflies.

ABSTRACT: Species community structures respond strongly to habitat changes. These are either driven by nature or human activities. The biota of East African drylands responds highly sensitively to natural and anthropogenic impacts. Thus, seasonality strongly influences resource availability in a cyclic manner during the year, with cyclic appearance of the different developmental stages of invertebrates, while man-made landscape transformations profoundly and permanently modify habitat structures and, as a consequence, species communities. Butterflies are an excellent model group for the study of the effects of seasonality, and to test for biodiversity responses to anthropogenic activities such as habitat modification, degradation and destruction. We performed transect counts of adult butterflies in

SUBMITTER: Schmitt T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8302627 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature