Unexpected phenological responses of butterflies to the interaction of urbanization and geographic temperature
Diamond, S. E., Cayton, H., Wepprich, T., Jenkins, C. N., Dunn, R. R., Haddad, N. M., & Ries, L. (2014, March 12). Ecology, Vol. 95, pp. 2613–2621.
author keywords: anthropogenic change; citizen science; global climate change; impervious surface; Lepidoptera; nonadditive effects; phenology; physiology; temperature; trait-based modeling
topics (OpenAlex): Species Distribution and Climate Change; Animal and Plant Science Education; Plant and animal studies
TL;DR:
Although shifts toward earlier phenology are typical of species' responses to either global climate change or urbanization, it was found that their interaction delayed several Ohio butterflies' first appearance and peak abundance phenology.
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