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Relative importance of quantity, quality and isolation of patches for butterfly diversity in fragmented urban forests

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Author	Soga, Masashi Koike, Shinsuke
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	The majority of forests in urban areas are small and isolated. Improving habitat quality of small forests instead of increasing habitat size and connectivity could be an effective means of conserving the biodiversity of such highly fragmented landscapes. In this study, we investigated the relative importance of habitat quantity, quality and isolation on butterfly assemblages in urban fragmented forests in Tokyo, Japan. We used four habitat geographic parameters: (1) fragment size, (2) shape index, (3) isolation (distance to the mainland), and (4) connectivity; and three habitat quality parameters: (1) herbaceous nectar plant abundance, (2) herbaceous nectar plant diversity, and (3) larval host plant diversity. We surveyed butterfly assemblages along transects in 20 forest fragments that ranged in size from 1 to 122 ha. We used generalized linear models to relate the number of species in a fragment to four habitat geographic parameters and three habitat quality parameters. The averaged models based on AIC$_{c}$ showed that fragment size had a strong positive effect on butterfly species richness. There was also a positive effect of herbaceous nectar plant abundance on species diversity. These findings suggest that improving the habitat quality of small and isolated forests in highly fragmented landscapes may be capable of maintaining levels of butterfly diversity comparable to those of large fragments.
Starting Page	265
Ending Page	271
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09123814
Journal	Ecological Research
Volume Number	27
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	14401703
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Japan
Publisher Date	2011-11-08
Publisher Place	Japan
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Butterfly assemblages Forest fragmentation Habitat quality Fragmentation effects Species–area relationship Forestry Ecology Behavioural Sciences Evolutionary Biology Zoology Plant Sciences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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