Body size and its correlates in fruit-feeding butterflies in a seasonal environment
Geraldo de Brito Freire, Danielle Salcido, Hernani F. M. Oliveira, Danilo B. Ribeiro, Diogo B. Provete, Thayane Silva, Joao Paulo Dias, Hanna P. Rodrigues, Jessie P. Santos, Ivone R. Diniz
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Agradecimentos: Fernando Carvalho, Miguel Marinho, and Nayara F. Araújo helped with fieldwork. University of Brasília provided logistical support. G.B.F.Jr and I.R.D, received a post-doc fellowships from Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education through the Program of...
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Agradecimentos: Fernando Carvalho, Miguel Marinho, and Nayara F. Araújo helped with fieldwork. University of Brasília provided logistical support. G.B.F.Jr and I.R.D, received a post-doc fellowships from Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education through the Program of Internationalization—CAPES/PrInt (Proc #: CAPES/PrInt—88887.683913/2022), and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) through the PVE Program and PRONEX CNPq/FAPDF (Proc #: CNPq-303076/2013), respectively. Special thanks to André Lucci Freitas, Lee Dyer, Pedro Constantino, Celso Oliveira, Korynna Rubio, and Andrea Glassmire for helping us with specimen identification and comments on a previous version of this paper
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Abstract: Body-size covaries with many species’ traits, with implications for population and ecosystem-level patterns. Body size and seasonality of a species may covary if, for certain body sizes and optimal resource availability, meet the larger energy requirements of large-bodied species, are...
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Abstract: Body-size covaries with many species’ traits, with implications for population and ecosystem-level patterns. Body size and seasonality of a species may covary if, for certain body sizes and optimal resource availability, meet the larger energy requirements of large-bodied species, are restricted to a narrow temporal window. Here, we examine the relationship between body size and seasonality of fruit-feeding butterflies in the Cerrado, as well as its association with larval diet breadth and synchrony with fruit phenology. Relative to smaller-bodied clades, the adults within larger clades were less abundant, more generalized in their larval diet-breadth, more seasonal, and synchronized with fruit phenology. Body-size covaries with species traits that are sensitive to anthropogenic drivers. In the Cerrado realm, Brazil, larger-bodied butterflies tend to be more temporally specialized and more synchronized with food plants—therefore, more vulnerable to climate-driven changes in phenology (i.e., fruiting season). To account for climate driven changes in synchrony with resources in the Cerrado, conservation should continue to focus on preserving habitat, especially corridors between savannah and gallery forests, so that resources are diverse and sufficiently abundant to sustain populations. Results from our study suggest that to conserve larger-bodied nymphalids, habitat restoration projects should prioritize seed sources that will maximize interaction diversity. This may not only be achieved by planting a diversity of native host plants but also cultivars that offset seasonal changes in the timing of flushing or fruiting
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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DE PESSOAL DE NÍVEL SUPERIOR - CAPES
88887.683913/2022
CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO - CNPQ
303076/2013
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Salcido, Danielle
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Oliveira, Hernani F. M.
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Body size and its correlates in fruit-feeding butterflies in a seasonal environment
Geraldo de Brito Freire, Danielle Salcido, Hernani F. M. Oliveira, Danilo B. Ribeiro, Diogo B. Provete, Thayane Silva, Joao Paulo Dias, Hanna P. Rodrigues, Jessie P. Santos, Ivone R. Diniz
Body size and its correlates in fruit-feeding butterflies in a seasonal environment
Geraldo de Brito Freire, Danielle Salcido, Hernani F. M. Oliveira, Danilo B. Ribeiro, Diogo B. Provete, Thayane Silva, Joao Paulo Dias, Hanna P. Rodrigues, Jessie P. Santos, Ivone R. Diniz
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Journal of insect conservation v. 27, n. 4, p. 577–587, Aug. 2023 |