Moth diversity increases along a continent-wide gradient of environmental productivity in South African savannahs
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/68081766:_____/22:00560398 RIV/00216208:11310/22:10452152 RIV/00216208:11620/22:10452152 RIV/60076658:12310/22:43904768
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/13/9/778/pdf?version=1661693677" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/13/9/778/pdf?version=1661693677</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects13090778" target="_blank" >10.3390/insects13090778</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Moth diversity increases along a continent-wide gradient of environmental productivity in South African savannahs
Original language description
Environmental productivity, i.e., the amount of biomass produced by primary producers, belongs among the key factors for the biodiversity patterns. Although the relationship of diversity to environmental productivity differs among studied taxa, detailed data are largely missing for most groups, including insects. Here, we present a study of moth diversity patterns at local and regional scales along a continent-wide gradient of environmental productivity in southern African savannah ecosystems. We sampled diversity of moths (Lepidoptera: Heterocera) at 120 local plots along a gradient of normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) from the Namib Desert to woodland savannahs along the Zambezi River. By standardized light trapping, we collected 12,372 specimens belonging to 487 moth species. The relationship between species richness for most analyzed moth groups and environmental productivity was significantly positively linear at the local and regional scales. The absence of a significant relationship of most moth groups’ abundance to environmental productivity did not support the role of the number of individuals in the diversity–productivity relationship for south African moths. We hypothesize the effects of water availability, habitat complexity, and plant diversity drive the observed moth diversity patterns.
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
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Insects
ISSN
2075-4450
e-ISSN
2075-4450
Volume of the periodical
13
Issue of the periodical within the volume
9
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
778
UT code for WoS article
000859505000001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85138605612