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8. From natural woodlands to cultivated land: diversity of fruit-feeding butterflies and beetles in the mid- Zambezi valley, northern Zimbabwe.

Author

Tambara, Edwin, Murwira, Amon, and Kativu, Shakie

Subjects
*BUTTERFLIES, *FOREST ecology, *FORESTS & forestry, *INSECT diversity, *NYMPHALIDAE, *SPECIES diversity
Abstract

We tested the effect of cultivation on butterfly ( Nymphalidae: Charaxes) and beetle ( Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) species richness and abundance along a cultivation intensification gradient. Results showed significant differences in species richness and abundance between natural woodlands and cultivated landscapes with larger differences in areas of high cultivation intensity. The results indicate that natural woodland clearing for cultivation purposes has negative impacts on arthropod diversity, a situation more severe in highly intensified cultivated areas. Our results imply that mosaics of different land-use units, each in a different phase of clearance-cultivation-abandonment-recovery-clearance cycle could counter the negative effects of cultivation intensity on arthropod diversity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2013
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