Recent land use changes, namely the intensification of agriculture and forestry as well as
the abandonment of traditional grassland management methods, have resulted in the …

Pesticides, in particular insecticides, can be very beneficial but have also been found to
have harmful side effects on non-target insects. Butterflies play an important role in …

Many grassland ecosystems are disturbance-dependent, having evolved under the
pressures of fire and grazing. Restoring these disturbances can be controversial, particularly …

Nowadays 37% of Earth's ice-free land is composed by fragments of natural habitats settled
in anthropogenic biomes. Therefore, we have to improve our knowledge about distribution of …

We investigated the interacting impacts of urban landscape and gardening practices on the
species richness and total abundance of communities of common butterfly communities …

Urban parks comprise diverse microhabitats, such as vegetation units of lawn and arbour
forests, with differing biodiversity potentials. However, the influences of microhabitats on …

Investigation was carried out on the diversity of butterfly fauna in selected localities of
conservation and breeding center of Arignar Anna Zoological Park (AAZP), Chennai, Tamil …

Established butterfly monitoring methods are designed for open habitats such as
grasslands. Not all rare species occupy habitats that are easy to see across and navigate, in …

Severe losses in biodiversity hotspots reduce global insect diversity. Renosterveld is a
critically endangered and biologically diverse ecosystem occurring only in the fynbos biome …

Occupancy has several important advantages over abundance methods and may be the
best choice for monitoring sparse populations. Here we use simulations to evaluate …