Ecological and functional effects of habitat conversion and seasons on fruit-feeding butterfly assemblages in tropical dry forests.xlsx

The dataset from Macêdo et al. (2025): examines how dry forest conversion to pasture and seasonal variation affect taxonomic (species richness and Shannon index), functional and phylogenetic diversity, and fluctuating asymmetry in fruit-feeding butterflies (Nymphalidae). It includes species occurrence records from 168 Van Someren-Rydon traps across three mountain ranges in both wet and dry seasons, functional flight-related traits for 32 species, and a phylogenetic tree for the same species.