How butterflies keep their cool: Physical and ecological traits influence thermoregulatory ability and population trends

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/1365-2656.13319" target="_blank" >https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/1365-2656.13319</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13319" target="_blank" >10.1111/1365-2656.13319</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

How butterflies keep their cool: Physical and ecological traits influence thermoregulatory ability and population trends

Original language description

1.Understanding which factors influence the ability of individuals to respond to changing temperatures is fundamental to species conservation under climate change.n2.We investigated how a community of butterflies responded to fine‐scale changes in air temperature, and whether species‐specific responses were predicted by ecological or morphological traits.3.Using data collected across a UK reserve network, we investigated the ability of 29 butterfly species to buffer thoracic temperature against changes in air temperature. First, we tested whether differences were attributable to taxonomic family, morphology or habitat association. We then investigated the relative importance of two buffering mechanisms: behavioural thermoregulation versus fine‐scale microclimate selection. Finally, we tested whether species' responses to changing temperatures predicted their population trends from a UK‐wide dataset.n4.We found significant interspecific variation in buffering ability, which varied between families and increased with wing length. We also found interspecific differences in the relative importance of the two buffering mechanisms, with species relying on microclimate selection suffering larger population declines over the last 40 years than those that could alter their temperature behaviourally.5.Our results highlight the importance of understanding how different species respond to fine‐scale temperature variation, and the value of taking microclimate into account in conservation management to ensure favourable conditions are maintained for temperature‐sensitive species.n

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10616 - Entomology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Animal Ecology

ISSN

0021-8790

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

89

Issue of the periodical within the volume

11

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

2440-2450

UT code for WoS article

000572070400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85091356489