Can butterflies cope with city life? Butterfly diversity in a young megacity in southern China

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	Can butterflies cope with city life? Butterfly diversity in a young megacity in southern China
	Sing KW 1; Dong H 2; Wang WZ 3; Wilson JJ[*]1
刊名	GENOME
	2016
卷号	59 期号:9 页码:751-761
关键词	DNA barcoding Shenzhen analyse de codes à barres d’ADN butterflies parcs urbains urban parks urbanisation urbanization
通讯作者	butterflycount@gmail.com ; wilso04@gmail.com
英文摘要	During 30 years of unprecedented urbanization, plant diversity in Shenzhen, a young megacity in southern China, has increased dramatically. Although strongly associated with plant diversity, butterfly diversity generally declines with urbanization, but this has not been investigated in Shenzhen. Considering the speed of urbanization in Shenzhen and the large number of city parks, we investigated butterfly diversity in Shenzhen parks. We measured butterfly species richness in four microhabitats (groves, hedges, flowerbeds, and unmanaged areas) across 10 parks and examined the relationship with three park variables: park age, park size, and distance from the central business district. Butterflies were identified based on wing morphology and DNA barcoding. We collected 1933 butterflies belonging to 74 species from six families; 20% of the species were considered rare. Butterfly species richness showed weak negative correlations with park age and distance from the central business district, but the positive correlation with park size was statistically significant (p = 0.001). Among microhabitat types, highest species richness was recorded in unmanaged areas. Our findings are consistent with others in suggesting that to promote urban butterfly diversity it is necessary to make parks as large as possible and to set aside areas for limited management. In comparison to neighbouring cities, Shenzhen parks have high butterfly diversity.
收录类别	SCI
资助信息	This study was funded by Shenzhen Science and Technol- ogyInnovationCouncil(GrantNo.:KQC201105310009A),Uni- versity of Malaya (Grant No.: RP003D-13SUS), and the South China DNA Barcoding Center.
语种	英语
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://159.226.149.26:8080/handle/152453/10071]
专题	昆明动物研究所_生命条形码中心昆明动物研究所_遗传资源与进化国家重点实验室
作者单位	1.Ecology and Biodiversity Program, Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Museum of Zoology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Fairy Lake Botanical Garden, Shenzhen and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518004, China. 2.Fairy Lake Botanical Garden, Shenzhen and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518004, China 3.State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 32 Jiaochang Donglu, Kunming 650223, China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Sing KW,Dong H,Wang WZ,et al. Can butterflies cope with city life? Butterfly diversity in a young megacity in southern China[J]. GENOME,2016,59(9):751-761.
APA	Sing KW,Dong H,Wang WZ,&Wilson JJ[*].(2016).Can butterflies cope with city life? Butterfly diversity in a young megacity in southern China.GENOME,59(9),751-761.
MLA	Sing KW,et al."Can butterflies cope with city life? Butterfly diversity in a young megacity in southern China".GENOME 59.9(2016):751-761.