USE OF LIPID RESERVES BY MONARCH BUTTERFLIES OVERWINTERING IN MEXICO: IMPLICATIONS FOR CONSERVATION
USE OF LIPID RESERVES BY MONARCH BUTTERFLIES OVERWINTERING IN MEXICO: IMPLICATIONS FOR CONSERVATION
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墨西哥帝王蝶利用脂质储备越冬：对保护的影响
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1997
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L. Brower
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A. Alonso;Eduardo Rendón;Eneida Montesinos;L. Brower
在墨西哥为期5个月的越冬期间，数千万只黑脉金斑蝶（Danaus plexippus）在以紫杉树（Abies religiosa）为主的森林中密集聚集。这些森林提供了一个凉爽、潮湿的环境，大多数帝王蝶利用它来维持生殖滞育状态，并在3月份迁徙回美国南部之前基本上保持不活动状态。1986年，墨西哥政府创建了帝王蝶特殊生物圈保护区（MBSBR），但它面临着允许从保护区核心地区采伐森林的压力。最近一项为伐木辩护的论点认为，采伐树木会创造出森林开口，让更多的植物开花，从而使帝王蝶受益。花蜜的增加可能意味着更少的帝王蝶会耗尽它们的脂质含量，因此，更多的帝王蝶会在越冬期间存活下来。我们通过比较在整个越冬期间，脂质利用和…
During their 5-mo overwintering period in Mexico, tens of millions of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) form dense aggregations in forests dominated by oyamel fir trees (Abies religiosa). These forests provide a cool, moist environment that most monarchs use to maintain a state of reproductive diapause and to remain largely inactive until March, when they migrate back to the southern United States. In 1986, the Mexican government created the Monarch Butterfly Special Biosphere Reserve (MBSBR), but it is under pressure to allow forest extractions from core areas of the reserve. A recent argument to justify logging maintains that tree extraction would benefit monarchs by creating forest openings in which more plants would flower. The increased availability of nectar might mean that fewer monarchs would deplete their lipid contents, and therefore, more monarchs would survive the overwintering period. We investigated this hypothesis by comparing, throughout the overwintering period, lipid utilization and...