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SUMMARY:The Rhythm of Africa: how life history traits affect dynamics of a
  fruit-feeding butterfly community - Freerk Molleman - University of Renne
 s\, France. WEBSITE:
DTSTART:20131008T150000Z
DTEND:20131008T160000Z
UID:TALK47047@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Oskar Brattstrom
DESCRIPTION:While seasonal abundance fluctuations of insects are the norm 
 in temperate regions\, this is not necessarily so in the tropics. The 12 y
 ears of monthly monitoring of a fruit-feeding butterfly community conducte
 d in Uganda\, is among the longest in the tropics\, and is augmented with 
 species life history traits and phylogeny. I will highlight the most impor
 tant results of community analyses (Ecosphere 2013)\, and then show result
 s of phylogenetic independent contrast analyses of correlations between sp
 ecies temporal abundance patterns and life history traits. Finally\, I wil
 l discuss how the multifaceted nature of insect abundance may be interpret
 ed\, and brought to bear on important questions\, such as the relative imp
 ortance of density dependence in tropical ecosystems\, rates of evolution\
 , and responses to climate change.
LOCATION:Part II Lecture Theatre\, Department of Zoology
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