Altitudinal variation in butterfly community associated with climate and vegetation.

Autor: Pires ACV; Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Ecologia Evolutiva & Biodiversidade, Departamento de Genética, Ecologia & Evolução, Av. Pres. Antônio Carlos, 6627, Pampulha, 31270-901 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.; Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade, Complexo Administrativo EQSW 103/104, s/n, Cruzeiro / Sudoeste / Octogonal, 70670-350 Brasília, DF, Brazil., Barbosa M; Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Ecologia Evolutiva & Biodiversidade, Departamento de Genética, Ecologia & Evolução, Av. Pres. Antônio Carlos, 6627, Pampulha, 31270-901 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil., Beiroz W; Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Ecologia Evolutiva & Biodiversidade, Departamento de Genética, Ecologia & Evolução, Av. Pres. Antônio Carlos, 6627, Pampulha, 31270-901 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.; Universidade Federal do Sul e Sudeste do Pará, Instituto de Estudos do Xingu, Av. Norte Sul, s/n, Lote 001, Quadra 015, Setor 015 - Rodoviário, 68380-000 São Félix do Xingu, PA, Brazil., BeirÃo MV; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia de Biomas Tropicais, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Rua Professor Paulo Magalhães Gomes, 122, Bauxita, 35400-000 Ouro Preto, MG, Brazil., Marini-Filho OJ; Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade, Complexo Administrativo EQSW 103/104, s/n, Cruzeiro / Sudoeste / Octogonal, 70670-350 Brasília, DF, Brazil., Duarte M; Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Nazaré, 481, Ipiranga, 04263-000 São Paulo, SP, Brazil.; Research Associate of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 10th St. & Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20560, USA., Mielke OHH; Universidade Federal do Paraná, Departamento de Zoologia, Laboratório de Estudos de Lepidoptera Neotropical, Rua XV de Novembro, 1299, Centro, 80060-000 Curitiba, PR, Brazil.; McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, 3215 Hull Rd, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA., Ladeira FA; Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Ecologia Evolutiva & Biodiversidade, Departamento de Genética, Ecologia & Evolução, Av. Pres. Antônio Carlos, 6627, Pampulha, 31270-901 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil., Nunes YRF; Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros, Departamento de Biologia Geral, Laboratório de Ecologia Vegetal, Av. Prof. Rui Braga, s/n, Vila Mauriceia, 39408-354 Montes Claros, MG, Brazil., Negreiros D; Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e Saúde, Centro Universitário UNA, Rua dos Guajajaras, 175, Centro, 30180-100 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil., Fernandes GW; Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Ecologia Evolutiva & Biodiversidade, Departamento de Genética, Ecologia & Evolução, Av. Pres. Antônio Carlos, 6627, Pampulha, 31270-901 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
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Zdroj: Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias [An Acad Bras Cienc] 2020 Oct 28; Vol. 92 (suppl 2), pp. e20190058. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Oct 28 (Print Publication: 2020).
DOI: 10.1590/0001-3765202020190058
Abstrakt: Elevation creates a variety of physical conditions in a relatively short distance, which makes mountains suitable for studying the effects of climate change on biodiversity. We investigated the importance of climate and vegetation for the distribution of butterflies from 800 to 1400 m elevation. We sampled butterflies, and woody and rosette plants and measured air temperature and humidity, wind speed and gust, and solar radiation. We partitioned diversity to assess the processes underlying community shifts across altitudes - species loss versus replacement. We assessed the strength of the association among butterfly, vegetation, and climate. Butterfly richness and abundance decreased with altitude, and species composition changed along the elevation. Changes in butterfly composition with altitude were mainly through species replacement and by abundance increases in some species being compensated by decreases in others. Since the floristic diversity decreased with altitude due to soil conditions, and butterflies are closely related to their host plants, this could explain species replacement with altitude. Overall, we found a stronger association of butterfly community with vegetation than climate, but plant community and climate were also strongly associated between them. Butterfly richness was more strongly associated with plant richness than with temperature, while the reverse was true for butterfly abundance, which was more strongly associated with temperature than with plant richness. We must consider the complementary roles of resource and conditions in species distribution.
Databáze: MEDLINE