Fruit-feeding butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in eucalyptus plantations and gallery forests in the Colombian Orinoquia
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| Formato: | artículo original |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de Publicación: | 2022 |
| Descripción: | Introduction: An economic activity that has boomed in the last decade in Colombian highlands is the afforestation of anthropized savannas, but its role in the conservation of fruit-feeding butterflies of gallery forests within forest cores is unknown. Objective: To compare the diversity of fruit-feeding butterflies in eucalyptus plantations and gallery forests, and the role of environmental variables. Methods: We used Van Someren-Rydon traps, two replicates of four traps, on each of four habitats sampled simultaneously from December 2020 to July 2021: four-year-old eucalyptus plantation; six-year-old eucalyptus plantation; dry soil gallery forest and waterlogged gallery forest. We also recorded ten abiotic, structural, food and habitat variables. Results: We collected 227 specimens of fruit-feeding butterflies (30 species, 23 genera, and 5 subfamilies within the family Nymphalidae). There were more species in the forests. The butterfly species varied over 50 % between the habitats; Satyrinae were more diverse in plantations. Conclusion: Afforestation in this area provides habitats for some species of fruit-feeding butterflies from adjacent natural forest remnants. Afforestations represent an intermediate disturbance scenario between the two dominant landscape units in the region. |
| País: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Institución: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/50860 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/50860 |
| Palabra clave: | Bioindicator, Biodiversity, Afforestation, Colombian Altillanura, land use change. afforestation biodiversity bioindicators. colombian altillanura land use change Bioindicador, Biodiversidad, Forestación, Altillanura Colombiana, cambio de uso del suelo altillanura colombiana biodiversidad bioindicador cambio de uso del suelo forestación |