The Californian urban butterfly fauna is dependent on alien plants

By A. Shapiro. 2002

176 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/ddab2fc78f477c0004134e139404af260fd39178

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

In Plant Science

Citations in the corpus

Are urban parks refuges for bumble bees Bombus spp. (Hymenoptera: Apidae)? (2006, unknown): “…to check for spatial autocorrelation in the samples, we calculated Sorensen s similarity index (S = 2C/(A + B)), where A and B are the number of species in the two parks being compared and C is the number of species the two parks have in common, for each pair of parks (Sklenar and Jorgensen, 1999).”
Ecological Correlates of Extinction Proneness in Tropical Butterflies (2004, background): “Previous authors have similarly reported larval host plant as an important factor for the survival and distribution of butterflies in temperate regions (e.g., Thomas 1984, 1991; Thomas & Morris 1994; Shahabuddin et al. 2000; Thomas et al. 2001; Shapiro 2002).”
Insect Conservation in an Urban Biodiversity Hotspot: The San Francisco Bay Area (2002, background): “(Junonia coenia), and many lycaenids and skippers, use exotic plants (Steiner 1990; Shapiro 2002).”
Unexpected phenological responses of butterflies to the interaction of urbanization and geographic temperature (2014, background): “…found among the bestfitting models, with species that feed on forbs exhibiting significantly stronger phenological delays than species that feed on grasses; whether this result reflects variation in butterfly physiology or alterations to urban plant composition remains to be tested (Shapiro 2002).”
The economic benefits of invasive species management (2019, background): “In Davis, California, 13 native butterfly species exclusively use invasive species as breeding hosts, and therefore food for their young.”
Exotics as host plants of the California butterfly fauna (2003, background): “Shapiro (2002) also provides data demonstrating that in Davis, Yolo County, in California’s Central Valley, 29/32 butterfly species breed on introduced plants and 13 have no known native hosts in Davis at all.”
Are the ecological impacts of alien species misrepresented? A review of the “native good, alien bad” philosophy (2010, background): “…non-native plants such as buckwheat (Eriogonum spp.) as larval food plants, while more than 40% have no known native hosts for ovipositing in urban and sub-urban environments, such that many species would likely become extirpated in urban environments if alien plants were removed (Shapiro 2002).”
Small scale additions of native plants fail to increase beneficial insect richness in urban gardens (2011, background): “In addition (and as mentioned earlier), some endemic herbivores have been documented feeding on alien plants in urban settings (Shapiro, 2002; Connor et al., 2003) and there may be considerable heterogeneity in the response of herbivores and predators to urban land use (McIntyre et al.”
Direct interactions between invasive plants and native pollinators: evidence, impacts and approaches (2017, background): “For example, some authors have reported positive impacts of invasive plants on the abundance of some species, for example generalist butterflies (Shapiro 2002) and bees (Tepedino, Bradley & Griswold 2008), whilst others have found invasive plants associated with decreased abundance of butterflies (H”
Conflicting values: ecosystem services and invasive tree management (2013, background): “In Davis, California, more than 40 % of butterflies rely heavily on non-native plants, including many woody species (Shapiro 2002).”
Can Invasive Species Facilitate Native Species? Evidence of How, When, and Why These Impacts Occur (2006, background): “Shapiro (2002) found that over 40% of the native butterfly fauna in a suburban–urban environment in California have no native hosts.”