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April 6, 2026Journal of Biogeography

Diversity and Horizontal Turnover Depend on the Vertical Position in Neotropical Butterfly Communities

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SMSebastián MenaPSPatricio Salazar‐CarriónEPErika Páez

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Explores how vertical stratification influences butterfly diversity and community composition in tropical forests, implying ecological implications.

Key Points

  • The research aims to understand how vertical stratification affects butterfly community diversity and turnover in tropical forests.
  • Assessed butterfly diversity using data from monitoring programs across seven Ecuadorian forest ecosystems.
  • Analyzed 37,370 records from 1,099 butterfly species collected between 2011-2019.
  • Utilized metacommunity theory and Jost's diversity estimates to evaluate community patterns.
  • Identified strong partitioning between canopy and understorey butterfly communities with distinct diversity profiles.
  • Found greater spatial similarity in canopy assemblages compared to understorey assemblages at both local and regional scales.
  • Observed steeper distance-decay patterns for understorey assemblages than for canopy ones.

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Mena et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d34eac9c07852e0af9839ehttps://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.70209
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