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<p>Climate change is one of the leading challenges of this century with an impending threat to wipe out more vital butterfly species than ever before. Climate shift has the potential to affect their life cycles, flight times, essential bio-interactions, and ultimately survival. As the first such study in India, this case study highlights the inferential discussion on the importance of butterflies in maintaining the earth’s fragile ecological balance and consequently the impact of climate change upon them with inadvertent implications. Due to the shifting climate, a number of butterfly species are now migrating to newer places in their search for comfortable temperature and availability of food, as the reduction/loss/change of habitat lowers the diversity of microclimates and availability of food plants for larvae and adult butterflies. Consequently, the butterflies become even more vulnerable to natural perturbations and susceptible to predators and local extinctions.</p>
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Climate change is one of the leading challenges of this century with an impending threat to wipe out more vital butterfly species than ever before. Climate shift has the potential to affect their life cycles, flight times, essential bio-interactions, and ultimately survival. As the first such study in India, this case study highlights the inferential discussion on the importance of butterflies in maintaining the earth’s fragile ecological balance and consequently the impact of climate change upon them with inadvertent implications. Due to the shifting climate, a number of butterfly species are now migrating to newer places in their search for comfortable temperature and availability of food, as the reduction/loss/change of habitat lowers the diversity of microclimates and availability of food plants for larvae and adult butterflies. Consequently, the butterflies become even more vulnerable to natural perturbations and susceptible to predators and local extinctions.

Inadvertent implications of climate change for butterflies

Department of Civil Engineering & OIKOS (Eco-Club)

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Agriculture and Environment

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Climate change is one of the leading challenges of this century with an impending threat to wipe out more vital butterfly species than ever before. Climate...

Inadvertent implications of climate change for butterflies

Published Online: Jan 18, 2022

Page range: 13 - 22

Received: Jan 20, 2021

Accepted: Mar 30, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ausae-2021-0002

Keywords
climate, survival, interactions, species, balance, ecological

© 2021 Rajesh Gopinath et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Inadvertent implications of climate change for butterflies

Published Online: Jan 18, 2022

Page range: 13 - 22

Received: Jan 20, 2021

Accepted: Mar 30, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ausae-2021-0002

Keywordsclimate, survival, interactions, species, balance, ecological

© 2021 Rajesh Gopinath et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
climate, survival, interactions, species, balance, ecological