How universal are reserve design rules? A test using butterflies and their life history traits
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60077344%3A_____%2F16%3A00459095" target="_blank" >RIV/60077344:_____/16:00459095 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60076658:12310/16:43890567
Result on the web
<a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecog.01642/abstract" target="_blank" >http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecog.01642/abstract</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecog.01642" target="_blank" >10.1111/ecog.01642</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
How universal are reserve design rules? A test using butterflies and their life history traits
Original language description
We used butterfly species lists available for a set of 125 Czech Republic National Nature Reserves and Monuments, the highest small-sized conservation category in the country encompassing practically all biotope types existing in central Europe, to test the validity of generally agreed reserve design rules’ using multivariate ordination analyses. Further, we used ordination analysis of butterfly life history traits to seek for biological mechanisms responsible for butterfly community responses to essentially geometric reserves characteristics. Reserve area, relative perimeter, within reserve habitat heterogeneity, and surrounding landscape compositional and configurational heterogeneity all affected the composition of butterfly assemblages after controlling for effects of geographical position and prevailing biotope type. Species inclining towards large reserves displayed low mobility and high local population density, probably because they require large habitat areas to maintain self-sustaining populations; such species tend to have restricted distribution in the country and threatened status. Reserves with relatively long boundaries hosted species with high mobility, broad trophic range and long adult period; faunas of such reserves contain high proportions of widespread generalists. Species with narrow trophic ranges inclined towards reserves containing diverse habitats, probably due to requirements for high floristic diversity. Species with short adult flight, low generations number and overwintering in early stages inclined towards reserves situated amidst diverse landscapes, perhaps because such species require finely-grained mosaics for metapopulation dynamics. Commonly agreed reserve design rules thus hold for Central European butterflies, but different design characteristics are important for individual species, depending on their life histories.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
EH - Ecology - communities
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GAP505%2F10%2F2167" target="_blank" >GAP505/10/2167: Distribution atlas of Czech butterflies and large moths: model for assessment of biodiversity changes in Central Europe</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Ecography
ISSN
0906-7590
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
39
Issue of the periodical within the volume
5
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
456-464
UT code for WoS article
000375601700006
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-84936980903