Table 5 Life history traits, climatic niche traits and conservation-related attributes used for analyses of butterfly assemblages inhabiting the former Milovice military range, refaunated by large ungulates
Description | Character | |
|---|---|---|
Life history traits [5] | ||
Wing span | Numeric (mm) | |
Host plant form | Ephemerals—1, larger forbs—2, grasses and sedges—3, trees and shrubs—4 | Ranked |
Voltinism | Average number of generations, C. Europe | Numeric |
Fertility | Average number of eggs per female at eclosion | Categories 1–9 |
Mobility | Ranked tendency to disperse | Categories 1–9 |
Density | Ranked average density per area of habitat | Ranked 1–9 |
Diet breadth | Number of plant families fed on by larvae in the Czech Republic | Numeric |
Flight period length | Number of adult occurrence months (hibernation months excluded) | Numeric |
Overwintering stage | Ranked, larva—1, adult—5 | |
Climatic niche traits [79] | ||
Annual temperature | Mean annual temperature | °C |
Annual temperature niche breadth [= NB] | SD of the above | |
Continentality | Annual range in monthly temperatures | °C |
Continentality NB | SD of the above | |
Precipitation | Annual precipitation sum | mm |
Precipitation NB | SD of the above | |
Oceanity | Annual range in monthly precipitation sum | mm |
Oceanity NB | SD of the above | |
Winter GDD | Accumulated growing degree days [GDD] (> 5 °C), January–February | °C |
Winter GDD NB | SD of the above | |
Spring GDD | Accumulated GDD, January–April | °C |
Spring GDD NB | SD of the above | |
Early summer GDD | Accumulated GDD, January–June | °C |
Early summer GDD NB | SD of the above | |
Summer GDD | Accumulated GDD, January–August | °C |
Summer GDD NB | SD of the above | |
Water availability | Soil water content of the upper horizon (0.5 m) | No unit (0–1) |
Water availability NB | SD of the above | |
Conservation attributes | ||
Red list status [47] | Czech Republic (1—no status, 2—near threatened, 3—vulnerable, 4—endangered, 5—critically endangered) | ranked 1–5 |
Present CZ distribution [5] | Occupied Czech Republic 10 × 10 km grid squares 2002–2014 | Numeric |
Past CZ distribution [5] | Occupied Czech Republic grid squares 1951–2001 | Numeric |
CZ distribution trend [5] | [1- (Present distribution/Past distribution)] | Numeric |
Global range size [5] | Categorized, (1—smaller than Europe, 5—larger than the Palaearctic) | Numeric |
European range size [79] | Number of occupied (ca 70 × 70 km) grid squares in Europe | Numeric |