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Expansion and Naturalization of Adventive Butterfly Species (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) on the Northeastern Part of the Russian Plain

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Data on composition and naturalization patterns of more than twenty adventive butterfly species that expanded to the northeastern part of the Russian Plain during the period of 1990–2021 are compiled. It is shown that lines of transport communications such as highways, railways, power lines, and gas and oil pipelines serve as the main immigration corridors for butterfly species from southern regions. Anthropogenic transformation of indigenous taiga forests through industrial logging operations, largely expanding areas of open habitats, which are more suitable for butterflies, promotes successful naturalization of adventive species. Linear systems of technical and industrial constructions together with river valleys play a role of seminatural corridors for the expansion of adventive species. Furthermore, secondary small-leaved and mixed forests surrounded by a network of forest edges and meadows represent a kind of staging areas for the establishment of populations of adventive species. Groups of adventive species are delineated on the basis of their naturalization status that was estimated on the basis of an integral assessment of their biocenotic stability and landscape activity. A conclusion is drawn that ongoing expansion and naturalization of adventive butterfly species on the northeastern part of the Russian Plain will increase changes in the composition of local and zonal faunas and the spatial and typological structure of their populations.

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The work was carried out at the Institute of Biology, Komi Science Centre, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, within the framework of the state assignment on the topic “Diversity of Fauna and the Spatial and Ecological Structure of the Animal Population of the European Northeast of Russia and Adjacent Territories in Conditions of Environmental Change and Economic Development,” state reg. no. 122040600025-2.

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Tatarinov, A.G., Kulakova, O.I. Expansion and Naturalization of Adventive Butterfly Species (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) on the Northeastern Part of the Russian Plain. Russ J Biol Invasions 14, 405–416 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2075111723030177

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