Host plants and butterfly biology. Do host‐plant strategies drive butterfly status?

By R. Dennis, J. Hodgson, R. Grenyer, T. Shreeve, David Roy. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Intensive game keeping, coppicing and butterflies: The story of Milovicky Wood, Czech Republic (2006, background): “This increases soil nitrogen, promoting competitively superior plants (Chytry and Danihelka, 1993), whereas many butterflies depend on poorly competitive stresstolerant plants (cf. Dennis et al., 2004; Ockinger et al., 2006).”
Weed-insect pollinator networks as bio-indicators of ecological sustainability in agriculture. A review (2016, background): “If certain host plants have poor invasiveness within the various ecosystems, this inevitably leads to a scant presence of the related butterfly species (Dennis et al. 2004).”
The generalism-specialism debate: the role of generalists in the life and death of species (2011, background): “There are also specialists that are polyphagous (Dennis et al., 2004); classic examples being those on temporally limited plant parts, such as flowers and young growth [e.g. Plebejus argus L. (Lycaenidae) on Cistaceae, Ericaceae, and Fabaceae; Dennis, 2010].”
Impact of farm size and topography on plant and insect diversity of managed grasslands in the Alps (2009, background): “…the one hand, mono- or oligophagous herbivores such as larval stages of most of the species recorded are strongly dependent on the presence and abundance of host plants (Dennis et al., 2004), and thus species-rich meadows on steep slopes are more likely to host a larger number of butterfly species.”
Effects of prescribed fire and fire surrogates on floral visiting insects of the blue ridge province in North Carolina (2007, background): “Butterfly abundance and diversity may depend on host plant attributes (Dennis et al., 2004) rather than the amount or diversity of flowering plants so, if their host plants were absent, they may only have been itinerant visitors to our plots.”