Has the currently warming climate affected populations of the mountain ringlet butterfly, Erebia epiphron (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), in low-elevation mountains?

0458415 - BC 2017 RIV CZ eng J - Journal Article
Konvička, Martin - Beneš, Jiří - Čížek, O. - Kuras, T. - Klečková, Irena
Has the currently warming climate affected populations of the mountain ringlet butterfly, Erebia epiphron (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), in low-elevation mountains?
European Journal of Entomology. Roč. 113, APR 05 (2016), s. 295-301. ISSN 1210-5759. E-ISSN 1802-8829
R&D Projects: GA ČR GAP505/10/2167; GA ČR GAP505/10/2248; GA ČR(CZ) GA14-33733S
Grant - others:GA ČR(CZ) GAP505/10/1630
Institutional support: RVO:60077344
Keywords : Lepidoptera * Nymphalidae * Erebia epiphron
Subject RIV: EH - Ecology, Behaviour
Impact factor: 1.167, year: 2016
http://www.eje.cz/pdfs/eje/2016/01/36.pdf

The study evaluates abundance changes of a cold-adapted butterfly Erebia epiphron during years 1990-2010. The study is based on transect monitoring data from middle high mountains of temperate latitudes, Krkonose Mts., Czech Republic. Butterfly numbers recorded per transect walk decreased between the 1990s and the 2010s, but relative population abundances remained unchanged. The possible explanation is desynchonization of development of annual cohorts.

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