No impact of habitat fragmentation on condition and dispersal ability in the highly mobile butterfly Pieris rapae
Abstract The loss and fragmentation of natural habitats due to agricultural intensification have a strong negative impact on farmland biodiversity. The concomitant isolation of essential resources may exert selection pressures toward increased dispersal performance in flying insects, possibly result...
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| author | Franziska Deppe Christoph Achterberg Johanna‐Marie Dittmar Steffen Kunz Lara Näckel Luisa Wittkamp Klaus Fischer |
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| description | Abstract The loss and fragmentation of natural habitats due to agricultural intensification have a strong negative impact on farmland biodiversity. The concomitant isolation of essential resources may exert selection pressures toward increased dispersal performance in flying insects, possibly resulting in differences in flight morphology and dispersal propensity across landscapes. Here, we compared condition, flight morphology, dispersal capacity, and propensity of the common butterfly Pieris rapae among four pairs of highly fragmented “modern” and less fragmented “traditional” agricultural landscapes. We did not find differences between landscape types, but between locations and sexes. These results are not entirely unexpected, as P. rapae is a highly mobile generalist species, able to exploit temporarily available resources such as rapeseed in modern agricultural landscapes. In addition, our negative results may suggest a lack of time for evolutionary change such that differences may appear in the future. However, more specialized species with low dispersal ability may show clearer patterns and may well suffer from habitat fragmentation, and investigating such interrelation is an important task for future research. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-83d8b77b098d4d2293771917d0e756682023-10-27T00:26:31ZengWileyEcosphere2150-89252023-10-011410n/an/a10.1002/ecs2.4679No impact of habitat fragmentation on condition and dispersal ability in the highly mobile butterfly Pieris rapaeFranziska Deppe0Christoph Achterberg1Johanna‐Marie Dittmar2Steffen Kunz3Lara Näckel4Luisa Wittkamp5Klaus Fischer6Institute for Integrated Natural Sciences, Zoology University of Koblenz Koblenz GermanyInstitute for Integrated Natural Sciences, Zoology University of Koblenz Koblenz GermanyInstitute for Integrated Natural Sciences, Zoology University of Koblenz Koblenz GermanyInstitute for Integrated Natural Sciences, Zoology University of Koblenz Koblenz GermanyInstitute for Integrated Natural Sciences, Zoology University of Koblenz Koblenz GermanyInstitute for Integrated Natural Sciences, Zoology University of Koblenz Koblenz GermanyInstitute for Integrated Natural Sciences, Zoology University of Koblenz Koblenz GermanyAbstract The loss and fragmentation of natural habitats due to agricultural intensification have a strong negative impact on farmland biodiversity. The concomitant isolation of essential resources may exert selection pressures toward increased dispersal performance in flying insects, possibly resulting in differences in flight morphology and dispersal propensity across landscapes. Here, we compared condition, flight morphology, dispersal capacity, and propensity of the common butterfly Pieris rapae among four pairs of highly fragmented “modern” and less fragmented “traditional” agricultural landscapes. We did not find differences between landscape types, but between locations and sexes. These results are not entirely unexpected, as P. rapae is a highly mobile generalist species, able to exploit temporarily available resources such as rapeseed in modern agricultural landscapes. In addition, our negative results may suggest a lack of time for evolutionary change such that differences may appear in the future. However, more specialized species with low dispersal ability may show clearer patterns and may well suffer from habitat fragmentation, and investigating such interrelation is an important task for future research.https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4679agricultural intensificationbutterfliescabbage white dispersalfragmentationinsect declineslandscape composition |
| spellingShingle | Franziska Deppe Christoph Achterberg Johanna‐Marie Dittmar Steffen Kunz Lara Näckel Luisa Wittkamp Klaus Fischer No impact of habitat fragmentation on condition and dispersal ability in the highly mobile butterfly Pieris rapae Ecosphere agricultural intensification butterflies cabbage white dispersal fragmentation insect declines landscape composition |
| title | No impact of habitat fragmentation on condition and dispersal ability in the highly mobile butterfly Pieris rapae |
| title_full | No impact of habitat fragmentation on condition and dispersal ability in the highly mobile butterfly Pieris rapae |
| title_fullStr | No impact of habitat fragmentation on condition and dispersal ability in the highly mobile butterfly Pieris rapae |
| title_full_unstemmed | No impact of habitat fragmentation on condition and dispersal ability in the highly mobile butterfly Pieris rapae |
| title_short | No impact of habitat fragmentation on condition and dispersal ability in the highly mobile butterfly Pieris rapae |
| title_sort | no impact of habitat fragmentation on condition and dispersal ability in the highly mobile butterfly pieris rapae |
| topic | agricultural intensification butterflies cabbage white dispersal fragmentation insect declines landscape composition |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4679 |
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