Geography of Life Histories in a Tropical Fauna: The Case of Indian Butterflies
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/60460709:41330/25:103530 RIV/60076658:12310/25:43910349
Result on the web
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ece3.72217" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ece3.72217</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.72217" target="_blank" >10.1002/ece3.72217</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Geography of Life Histories in a Tropical Fauna: The Case of Indian Butterflies
Original language description
The butterfly fauna of the megadiverse Republic of India contains 1386 species. The species richness in its 36 federal states and union territories primarily reflects the peculiar geography of the Indian peninsula, which remains unexplored except for patterns influencing species richness. Here, we develop on previous findings by focusing on species identities, by exploring the impact of physical geography, climate, land covers, socioeconomic conditions of the states, patterns by life history traits and shared evolutionary history of butterflies on the presence of individual species per federal state across the Indian peninsula. Physical geography was the strongest predictor of the states' butterfly fauna compositions, followed by climate, land covers and socioeconomics. The main faunal structures separate the humid Northeast from the rest of the country, distinguish humid Western Ghats states from the rest, and group together peninsular mountains. Analysing life histories showed that butterflies of the humid northeastern and southwestern states tend to be larger and develop on woody plants or large grasses, those of arid and high-altitude states tend to be smaller and develop on small forbs, whereas those utilising broad larval host plant scopes tend to be associated with shrubs and vines and inhabit large geographic ranges. More information on Indian butterflies' life histories would likely yield more intricate insights.
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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
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Ecology and Evolution
ISSN
2045-7758
e-ISSN
2045-7758
Volume of the periodical
15
Issue of the periodical within the volume
9
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
e72217
UT code for WoS article
001576620200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105016828770