Extinction of Lasiommata petropolitana (Fabricius, 1787) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in the Czech Republic: a case of habitat loss at a range margin
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://media.muzeumvalassko.cz/mrv/media/data/ostatni/ostatni-spitzer-et-al-petropolitana-2018.pdf" target="_blank" >http://media.muzeumvalassko.cz/mrv/media/data/ostatni/ostatni-spitzer-et-al-petropolitana-2018.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cszma-2017-0030" target="_blank" >10.1515/cszma-2017-0030</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Extinction of Lasiommata petropolitana (Fabricius, 1787) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in the Czech Republic: a case of habitat loss at a range margin
Original language description
Lasiommata petropolitana is a boreomontane butterfly, declining in Central Europe and not recorded in the Czech Republic since 1975. Based on revision of all existing archival records and results of recent targeted surveys in mountainous regions of East Moravia, area of its past occurrence, we document its gradual retreat and ultimate regional extinction. The historical range, marginal with respect to contiguous distribution along the Carpathian mountain chain, included both foothills and higher elevations of Bílé Karpaty, Hostýnské Vrchy, Javorníky, Moravskoslezské Beskydy and Vsetínské Vrchy Mts.; pre-1950 records document also a past occurrence at calcareous bedrock localities in Brno environs. Other past lowland records (Oslava valley, Olomouc, Znojmo) were due to misidentifications. Within the historical Czech range, the butterfly inhabited pastures with exposed calcareous, flysh or sandstone bedrock, maintained by traditional grazing. The decline of the species proceeded from lower elevations and foothills towards mountain ridges. The higher elevation sites were encroached by successional changes, or intentionally afforested, with post-war decline of mountain grazing. This development went largely unnoticed by conservation authorities, and represents a loss of mountain butterfly from marginal parts of its range.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10613 - Zoology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
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Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Acta Musei Silesiae, Scientiae Naturales
ISSN
2336-3193
e-ISSN
2336-3207
Volume of the periodical
66
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
271–279
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