Inadvertent implications of climate change for butterflies
Climate change is one of the leading challenges of this century with an impending threat to wipe out more vital butterfly species than ever before. Climate shift has the potential to affect their life cycles, flight times, essential bio-interactions, and ultimately survival. As the first such study...
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| author | Gopinath Rajesh Ram Aadarsa V. R. Sengupta Ashok |
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| description | Climate change is one of the leading challenges of this century with an impending threat to wipe out more vital butterfly species than ever before. Climate shift has the potential to affect their life cycles, flight times, essential bio-interactions, and ultimately survival. As the first such study in India, this case study highlights the inferential discussion on the importance of butterflies in maintaining the earth’s fragile ecological balance and consequently the impact of climate change upon them with inadvertent implications. Due to the shifting climate, a number of butterfly species are now migrating to newer places in their search for comfortable temperature and availability of food, as the reduction/loss/change of habitat lowers the diversity of microclimates and availability of food plants for larvae and adult butterflies. Consequently, the butterflies become even more vulnerable to natural perturbations and susceptible to predators and local extinctions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5d6e797915c6482fa33bbd8fd3519b772022-12-22T04:16:36ZengSciendoActa Universitatis Sapientiae: Agriculture and Environment2068-29642021-12-01131132210.2478/ausae-2021-0002Inadvertent implications of climate change for butterfliesGopinath Rajesh0Ram Aadarsa V. R.1Sengupta Ashok2Department of Civil Engineering & OIKOS (Eco-Club), BMS Institute of Technology and Management, Bengaluru, 560064, Karnataka, IndiaDepartment of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, AL10 9AB, United KingdomKV No. 1 Jalahalli West, Bengaluru560015, Karnataka, IndiaClimate change is one of the leading challenges of this century with an impending threat to wipe out more vital butterfly species than ever before. Climate shift has the potential to affect their life cycles, flight times, essential bio-interactions, and ultimately survival. As the first such study in India, this case study highlights the inferential discussion on the importance of butterflies in maintaining the earth’s fragile ecological balance and consequently the impact of climate change upon them with inadvertent implications. Due to the shifting climate, a number of butterfly species are now migrating to newer places in their search for comfortable temperature and availability of food, as the reduction/loss/change of habitat lowers the diversity of microclimates and availability of food plants for larvae and adult butterflies. Consequently, the butterflies become even more vulnerable to natural perturbations and susceptible to predators and local extinctions.https://doi.org/10.2478/ausae-2021-0002climatesurvivalinteractionsspeciesbalanceecological |
| spellingShingle | Gopinath Rajesh Ram Aadarsa V. R. Sengupta Ashok Inadvertent implications of climate change for butterflies Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Agriculture and Environment climate survival interactions species balance ecological |
| title | Inadvertent implications of climate change for butterflies |
| title_full | Inadvertent implications of climate change for butterflies |
| title_fullStr | Inadvertent implications of climate change for butterflies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Inadvertent implications of climate change for butterflies |
| title_short | Inadvertent implications of climate change for butterflies |
| title_sort | inadvertent implications of climate change for butterflies |
| topic | climate survival interactions species balance ecological |
| url | https://doi.org/10.2478/ausae-2021-0002 |
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