Butterfly community composition within a tropical urban landscape is influenced by habitat type and temperature

The specific factors that influence spatial community or population dynamics are often elusive, and even less known is the impact of tropical urban landscapes on diverse species community assemblages. To address this knowledge gap, we used a survey data set with 510 fruit‐feeding butterflies comprising 20 species across two heterogeneous habitats within a city in Nigeria. Next, we constructed generalised linear mixed models to understand the differential responses of the butterfly community to changes in environmental conditions across habitats. Butterfly species community assemblages significantly differed between the two urban habitats, with butterfly species significantly higher in the savannah woodland compared with the gallery forest due to the optimal daily temperatures of the savannah woodland. However, butterfly richness was lower in the gallery forest due to extreme environmental conditions. This study highlights that butterfly community changes in tropical urban landscapes are...,
we used a survey dataset with 510 fruit-feeding butterflies comprising 20 species across two heterogeneous habitats within a city in Nigeria. Next, we constructed generalised linear mixed models to understand the differential responses of the butterfly community to changes in environmental conditions across habitats.
, , # Butterfly community composition within a tropical urban landscape is influenced by habitat type and temperature

The dataset ***data*** consists of raw occurrence records of butterflies, and other variables collected to evaluate factors influencing the community of butterflies in urban areas in Nigeria. This includes over 500 butterfly species observations from different two habitats.

## Description of the data and file structure

***Week*****:** Consists of raw data of the week butterflies were collected from different locations.

**Date:** The variables represent the date butterflies were collected from different locations.

**Poin_ID:** Are the exact occurrence points where butterflies were collected from habitats.  

**Lon:** Longitudinal coordinates (°E or °W) of the source locations where butterflies were samples

**Lat:** Latitudinal coordinates (°N or °S) of the source locations where butterflies were samples

**habitat:** Classification of the habitats where butterflies we...