Ring roads and urban biodiversity: distribution of butterflies in urban parks in Beijing city and correlations with other indicator species

	Ring roads and urban biodiversity: distribution of butterflies in urban parks in Beijing city and correlations with other indicator species
	Sing, KW; Luo, JS; Wang, WZ; Jaturas, N; Soga, M; Yang, XZ; Dong, H; Wilson, JJ
	2019
发表期刊	SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
ISSN	2045-2322
卷号	9
摘要	The capital of China, Beijing, has a history of more than 800 years of urbanization, representing a unique site for studies of urban ecology. Urbanization can severely impact butterfly communities, yet there have been no reports of the species richness and distribution of butterflies in urban parks in Beijing. Here, we conducted the first butterfly survey in ten urban parks in Beijing and estimated butterfly species richness. Subsequently, we examined the distribution pattern of butterfly species and analyzed correlations between butterfly species richness with park variables (age, area and distance to city center), and richness of other bioindicator groups (birds and plants). We collected 587 individual butterflies belonging to 31 species from five families; 74% of the species were considered cosmopolitan. The highest butterfly species richness and abundance was recorded at parks located at the edge of city and species richness was significantly positively correlated with distance from city center (p < 0.05). No significant correlations were detected between the species richness and park age, park area and other bioindicator groups (p > 0.05). Our study provides the first data of butterfly species in urban Beijing, and serves as a baseline for further surveys and conservation efforts.
收录类别	SCIE
语种	英语
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.kiz.ac.cn/handle/152453/12536
专题	遗传资源与进化国家重点实验室_生命条形码中心
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Sing, KW,Luo, JS,Wang, WZ,et al. Ring roads and urban biodiversity: distribution of butterflies in urban parks in Beijing city and correlations with other indicator species[J]. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS,2019,9.
APA	Sing, KW.,Luo, JS.,Wang, WZ.,Jaturas, N.,Soga, M.,...&Wilson, JJ.(2019).Ring roads and urban biodiversity: distribution of butterflies in urban parks in Beijing city and correlations with other indicator species.SCIENTIFIC REPORTS,9.
MLA	Sing, KW,et al."Ring roads and urban biodiversity: distribution of butterflies in urban parks in Beijing city and correlations with other indicator species".SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 9(2019).

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