Trade-offs for butterfly alpha and beta diversity in human-modified landscapes and tropical rainforests.

ABSTRACT: The accelerating expansion of human populations and associated economic activity across the globe have made maintaining large, intact natural areas increasingly challenging. The difficulty of preserving large intact landscapes in the presence of growing human populations has led to a growing emphasis on landscape approaches to biodiversity conservation with a complementary strategy focused on improving conservation in human-modified landscapes. This, in turn, is leading to intense debate about the effectiveness of biodiversity conservation in human-modified landscapes and approaches to better support biodiversity in those landscapes. Here, we compared butterfly abundance, alpha richness, and beta diversity in human-modified landscapes (urban, sugarcane) and natural, forested areas to asses

SUBMITTER: Sambhu H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6309007 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature