Butterfly and moth communities differ in their response to habitat structure in rainforests of Mount Cameroon
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12310%2F21%3A43903063" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12310/21:43903063 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60077344:_____/21:00535927 RIV/67985939:_____/21:00535927 RIV/00216208:11310/21:10431370
Result on the web
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/btp.12900" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/btp.12900</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/btp.12900" target="_blank" >10.1111/btp.12900</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Butterfly and moth communities differ in their response to habitat structure in rainforests of Mount Cameroon
Original language description
Mechanisms structuring tropical communities are still under-studied, especially in Afrotropical rainforests. Although insect herbivores are considered to depend on plant diversity, we hypothesized that vegetation structure, together with other microhabitat characteristics, can be more important for some insects. Here, we compared habitat associations of fruit-feeding butterflies and moths, two ecologically different groups of Lepidoptera, in three rainforest localities in foothills of Mount Cameroon, West/Central Africa. Based on a comprehensive dataset of 16,040 specimens of 398 species systematically collected by 240 traps at 48 plots (altogether 9.68 ha), we analyzed how plant community composition, habitat openness, and forest structure affect communities of butterflies and moths. We expected different habitat descriptors to predict communities of the two insect groups. Habitats of tropical fruit-feeding moth communities have never been studied before. In both analyses of species richness and community structure, butterfly communities depended mostly on forest openness. Moth species richness depended on plant diversity and forest openness, whilst the latter substantially influenced their community composition. Additionally, we revealed differences in habitat associations between understory and canopy communities of both groups. Whilst species richness of understory communities was not influenced by any habitat characteristics, it generally followed the general patterns in canopies. By contrast, composition of understory communities followed the general patterns, whilst effects of habitat characteristics on canopy communities were minor for butterflies and none for moths. The differences between such closely related groups of herbivorous insects warn against generalization based on single-taxon studies and highlight the need of community-wide research of tropical rainforests. in French is available with online material
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10618 - Ecology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GJ16-11164Y" target="_blank" >GJ16-11164Y: Structure and specialization of pollination networks along a tropical altitudinal gradient: a path to understanding biodiversity evolution</a><br>
Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Biotropica
ISSN
0006-3606
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
53
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
567-580
UT code for WoS article
000599316800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85097511061