caa a22 4500 606164995 CHVBK 20210128100651.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10144-015-0480-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10144-015-0480-7 Demography and mobility of three common understory butterfly species from tropical rain forest of Papua New Guinea [Elektronische Daten] [Petr Vlasanek, Vojtech Novotny] The mobility of butterflies determines their ability to find host plant species, and thus their potential host plant range, as well as their ability to maintain meta-populations in fragmented habitats. While butterfly movement has been extensively studied for temperate species, very little is known for tropical forest species. A mark-release-recapture study of the three most common butterfly species in the understory of a lowland primary rainforest in Papua New Guinea included 3,705, 394 and 317 marked individuals of Danis danis, Taenaris sp. and Parthenos aspila respectively, with 1,031, 78 and 40 butterfly individuals recaptured at least once. Over a period of 6weeks there were almost 22,000 individuals belonging to these three species hatching within or entering our four study plots totaling 14.58ha in area. The most abundant species, D. danis, with 20,000 individuals, showed highly variable population densities during the study. The residency time in the studied plots was highest for P. aspila (84days), as individual butterflies stayed mostly in a single gap; we estimated that less than 1% of individuals disperse 1km or more. Similar movement probability was found in D. danis whilst in Taenaris sp., 10% of the population disperses ≥1km. Movement distances of D. danis were more than sufficient to locate its host plant, Derris elliptica, which occurred in 61% of the 20×20m subplots within a 50ha plot. Compared with temperate species, our three species have much longer life spans, but their movement patterns remain within the known mobility estimates of temperate species. The mobility of D. danis is close to the average for temperate Lycaenidae, while Taenaris sp. is more mobile and P. aspila less mobile than the mean for all temperate species. The Society of Population Ecology and Springer Japan, 2015 Jolly-Seber nationallicence Lepidoptera nationallicence Mark-release-recapture nationallicence Melanesia nationallicence Papilionoidea nationallicence Vlasanek Petr Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branisovska 31, 370 05, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic aut Novotny Vojtech Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branisovska 31, 370 05, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic aut Population Ecology Springer Japan 57/2(2015-04-01), 445-455 1438-3896 57:2<445 2015 57 10144 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10144-015-0480-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10144-015-0480-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Vlasanek Petr Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branisovska 31, 370 05, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Novotny Vojtech Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branisovska 31, 370 05, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Population Ecology Springer Japan 57/2(2015-04-01), 445-455 1438-3896 57:2<445 2015 57 10144