TY - JOUR
KW - United Kingdom
KW - Butterflies
KW - climate change
KW - phenology
KW - phylogeny
KW - diet breadth
KW - long-term monitoring
KW - overwintering stage
KW - range size
AU - Diamond Sarah E.
AU - Frame Alicia M.
AU - Martin Ryan A.
AU - Buckley Lauren B.
AB - How do species' traits help identify which species will respond most strongly to future climate change? We examine the relationship between species' traits and phenology in a well-established model system for climate change, the U.K. Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS). Most resident U.K. butterfly species have significantly advanced their dates of first appearance during the past 30 years. We show that species with narrower larval diet breadth and more advanced overwintering stages have experienced relatively greater advances in their date of first appearance. In addition, species with smaller range sizes have experienced greater phenological advancement. Our results demonstrate that species' traits can be important predictors of responses to climate change, and they suggest that further investigation of the mechanisms by which these traits influence phenology may aid in understanding species' responses to current and future climate change.
BT - Ecology
DA - May 1, 2011
DB - ESA Journals
IS - 5
LA - eng
N2 - How do species' traits help identify which species will respond most strongly to future climate change? We examine the relationship between species' traits and phenology in a well-established model system for climate change, the U.K. Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS). Most resident U.K. butterfly species have significantly advanced their dates of first appearance during the past 30 years. We show that species with narrower larval diet breadth and more advanced overwintering stages have experienced relatively greater advances in their date of first appearance. In addition, species with smaller range sizes have experienced greater phenological advancement. Our results demonstrate that species' traits can be important predictors of responses to climate change, and they suggest that further investigation of the mechanisms by which these traits influence phenology may aid in understanding species' responses to current and future climate change.
PY - 2011
SN - 0012-9658
SP - 1005
EP - 1012
ST - Ecology
T2 - Ecology
TI - Species' traits predict phenological responses to climate change in butterflies
UR - http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1890/10-1594.1
VL - 92
Y2 - 2013-07-15 13:56:35
ER -