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http://dx.doi.org/10.5656/KSAE.2009.48.4.439

Estimation of Species Richness of Butterfly Community in the Gwangneung Forest, Korea  

Kwon, Tae-Sung (Division of Forest Ecology, Korea Forest Research Institute)
Byun, Bong-Kyu (Korea National Arboretum)
Lee, Bong-Woo (Korea National Arboretum)
Lee, Chi-Young (Research Institute for East Asian Environment and Biology)
Shon, Jeong-Dal (Korea National Arboretum)
Kang, Seung-Ho (Korea Beneficial Insect Lab.)
Kim, Sung-Soo (Research Institute for East Asian Environment and Biology)
Kim, Young-Kul (Division of Forest Ecology, Korea Forest Research Institute)
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Korean journal of applied entomology / v.48, no.4, 2009 , pp. 439-445 More about this Journal
Abstract
Species richness (number of species) of the butterfly community in the Gwangneung forest, Korea, was estimated using data of the long-term butterfly monitoring, which had been carried out 291 times in the Korea National Arboretum or forest area of Gwangneung from 1998 to 2008. Abundance of each butterfly species was monitored using the line-transact method. In the present study, 13,333 butterflies belonging to 112 species were observed. Species accumulation curve and species richness was obtained using a software, EstimateS. The species accumulation curve shows an increase tendency even at 291 survey times, implying the possibility of the presence of a few unfound species. However, values of species richness estimated by the seven estimators were stabilized around 240-250 survey times. Species richness estimated by the estimators ranged from 120 species to 141 species with 128 species in average. However, the figure estimated by the previous studies since 1958 was 148 species. We estimated the reasonable scale of species richness on the base of recent analysis on the change of butterfly species. Species richness of the Korea National Arboretum was higher than that of natural forest and of plantation. However, species richness of butterfly was not different between natural forest and plantation. It is likely that increase of grasslands and habitat diversity in arboretum led to the increase of species richness of butterfly community.
Keywords
Insect; community; fauna; arboretum; global warming; grassland;
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