The relationship between plant and butterfly biodiversity is altered by compound effects of human activities at landscape and regional scales

IF 3.5 2区环境科学与生态学 Q2 ECOLOGY

Basic and Applied Ecology Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-09 DOI:10.1016/j.baae.2026.02.002

Miguel Cruz Palma , Antoine Guisan , Shawan Chowdhury , Flavien Collart , Federico Riva

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Abstract

Understanding how human activities influence biodiversity is a pressing challenge. Here, we ask whether obligate biotic interactions between plants and butterflies respond to patterns in anthropogenic disturbance at landscape and regional scales. Here, we used hierarchical models to understand how the relationships between alpha and beta taxonomic diversities of butterflies and plants change across landscapes and regions exposed to a gradient of anthropogenic influence.

Analyzing 1682 sampling sites in which butterfly and plant species were both inventoried, from 45 studies identified through a literature review, we found that ecological communities sampled in highly disturbed areas displayed a lower number of butterfly species per plant species, and more homogenized butterfly communities. These responses were exacerbated when human activities affected both the landscape and the region hosting the plant and butterfly communities assessed.

Our results suggest that human activities can differentially affect butterflies and plants, two co-evolved groups, thus altering long-term eco-evolutionary dynamics. They also hint at how the negative effects of human activities on biodiversity compound between landscape and regional scales, illustrating the importance of multi-scale analyses and approaches for understanding and protecting biodiversity globally.

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在景观和区域尺度上，植物与蝴蝶的生物多样性关系受到人类活动的复合影响

了解人类活动如何影响生物多样性是一项紧迫的挑战。在这里，我们询问植物和蝴蝶之间的强制性生物相互作用是否响应景观和区域尺度上人为干扰的模式。在这里，我们使用层次模型来理解蝴蝶和植物的α和β分类多样性之间的关系是如何在暴露于人类影响梯度的景观和地区变化的。通过文献综述，我们分析了45个研究中1682个同时调查了蝴蝶和植物物种的采样点，发现高度干扰区生态群落的蝴蝶种类/植物物种数量较低，蝴蝶群落的同质化程度较高。当人类活动影响到景观和所评估植物和蝴蝶群落所在地区时，这些反应会加剧。我们的研究结果表明，人类活动可以不同地影响蝴蝶和植物这两个共同进化的群体，从而改变长期的生态进化动态。他们还暗示了人类活动对生物多样性的负面影响如何在景观和区域尺度之间复合，说明了多尺度分析和方法对于理解和保护全球生物多样性的重要性。

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Basic and Applied Ecology 环境科学-生态学

CiteScore

6.90

自引率

5.30%

发文量

103

审稿时长

10.6 weeks

期刊介绍： Basic and Applied Ecology provides a forum in which significant advances and ideas can be rapidly communicated to a wide audience. Basic and Applied Ecology publishes original contributions, perspectives and reviews from all areas of basic and applied ecology. Ecologists from all countries are invited to publish ecological research of international interest in its pages. There is no bias with regard to taxon or geographical area.