Butterfly structural complexity and community data 2022-2023

These data are a combination of butterfly counts in their raw form by species also, summarised as abundances, richness and Simpson diversity index values. It also includes some site-specific data on where the surveys took place, including patch size and canopy structural complexity.
Data were collected following the method outlined by Neal, Araya, and Wheeler (2024) over an 8-week period in 2022, as presented in that paper, and during an additional 16-week period in 2023, which included repeat surveys at the original 10 sites and data collection at 12 additional sites.
Reference
Neal, W., Araya, Y. and Wheeler, P.M. (2024) ‘Influence of canopy structural complexity on urban woodland butterfly species richness’, Journal of Insect Conservation, pp. 1–12. Available at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10841-024-00594-z.

本数据集整合了按物种分类的原始蝴蝶计数数据，并将其汇总为种群丰度、物种丰富度以及辛普森多样性指数（Simpson Diversity Index）数值。此外，数据集还包含调查样地的特异性相关数据，涵盖斑块面积与冠层结构复杂度。

数据采集工作遵循Neal、Araya与Wheeler（2024）在其发表论文中阐述的方法，于2022年开展了为期8周的调查；2023年额外开展了为期16周的调查，其中包含对原有10个样地的重复调查，以及新增12个样地的数据采集工作。

参考文献
Neal, W., Araya, Y. 及 Wheeler, P.M.（2024）《冠层结构复杂度对城市林地蝴蝶物种丰富度的影响》，《Journal of Insect Conservation》，第1–12页。可访问：https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10841-024-00594-z.