Africa

Recovery patterns in community composition of fruitā€feeding butterflies following 26 years of active forest restoration

Restoration of forests is now considered an essential tool to combat climate change and the global biodiversity decline. However, our understanding of how animal communities recover after restoration interventions in tropical forests is limited. Here, we aim to reveal the recovery patterns of fruit-feeding butterfly communities across a large-scale rainforest restoration area in Kibale National Park, Uganda. Our study represents a chronosequence resampling of fruit-feeding butterfly communities across actively restored...