Long-Distance Movement of Pieris rapae

Jones, Rhondda; Gilbert, Neil; Guppy, Michael; Nealis, Vincent G.

doi:10.2307/4268

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“…The mean daily distance travelled by these four butterflies (range of 71-362 m/day) is reasonably on par with what has been found in other studies. For example, P. rapae has been found to move 250-600 m/day in suburban developments (Jones et al 1980) and less than 500 m/day in a small farming village (Ohsaki 1980). A small subset (8%) of butterflies remained in the urban gardens for relatively long periods (>3 days), with a few individuals (2%) residing in individual gardens for more than 10 days.…”

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Evaluating Community Gardens as Habitat for an Urban Butterfly

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Langellotto²

2012

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Although many butterfly species persist in heavily developed landscapes, it is unclear what factors influence movements of butterflies among urban habitat patches. We used mark-recapture and translocation experiments to assess residency and movement of the highly successful urban butterfly, Pieris rapae, within and among community gardens of New York City. Although the majority of marked butterflies used gardens transiently, a small number remained for several days. Recruitment (via pupation and/or immigration) and residence time of P. rapae adults was higher in larger gardens and gardens with more flowers. Residence time, but not recruitment, was influenced by the amount of surrounding green space. When translocated outside of gardens, butterflies readily moved to a variety of other urban green spaces including street trees, street plantings and other small patches of vegetation. This study demonstrate the ability of P. rapae to move through heavily developed landscapes and to locate floral resources, factors which may contribute to this species success in urbanized landscapes.

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2012

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“…5). We estimated diffusion coefficients for these butterflies from data collected by Jones et al (Jones et al 1980) on the daily movements of marked females. Mean displacements for butterflies ranged between .5 and 1.2 kin/day, which corresponds to diffusion coefficients between 0.16 and 0.92 km2day.…”

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“…There is growing interest in understanding how animal movements observed at small spatial and temporal scales, and the mechanisms responsible for them, are related to movements observed at larger spatial and temporal scales (Jones et al 1980, Morales and Ellner 2002, Samu et al 2003. For individuals, there is interest in determining whether movements at small spatial and temporal scales can be used to predict a lifetime track or significant parts of it (Nathan 2008.…”

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Risk taking not foraging behavior predicts dispersal of recently emerged stream brook charr (Salvelinus fontinalis)

2013

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Abstract. Several hypotheses predict that individual differences in migration and dispersal are related to individual differences in routine behavior associated with foraging and risk taking. We tested whether short-term dispersal of recently emerged brook charr Salvelinus fontinalis was correlated with differences in activity during prey search in the field (a measure of foraging tactic) or in the time taken to exit a dark tube into an unfamiliar field environment (a measure of risk taking). For one sample of fish, we tested whether an individual's propensity to disperse in a standardized dispersal test in the lab was correlated with its activity during prey search and its exit times in the field. For another sample of marked, released and recaptured fish, we tested whether an individual's minimum displacement distance over 6 days in the field (a measure of dispersal in the field) was related to its propensity to disperse in the lab. For the first sample, an individual's propensity to disperse in the lab was correlated with risk taking only, but, contrary to expectation, individuals with long exit times (risk-avoiders) dispersed farther than those with short exit times (risk-takers). For the second sample, dispersal in the field was also correlated with propensity to disperse in the lab, but, contrary to expectation, individuals with greater displacements in the field displayed lower propensities to disperse in the lab. Our findings demonstrate that individual differences in juvenile dispersal are related to differences in risk taking behavior, but not in foraging tactic, and that the nature of this relationship can depend on environmental context. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that individuals differing in risk taking behavior can contribute disproportionately to ecological processes involving long-distance movement.

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Long-Distance Movement of Pieris rapae

Cited by 82 publications

References 8 publications

Evaluating Community Gardens as Habitat for an Urban Butterfly

Evaluating Community Gardens as Habitat for an Urban Butterfly

Spread of invading organisms

Risk taking not foraging behavior predicts dispersal of recently emerged stream brook charr (Salvelinus fontinalis)

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