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Mobility is local-scale movement within or between habitat patches and important for modelling species' response to global change.
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Butterflies are a model system for mobility studies because there are many academic and amateur naturalists with extensive knowledge of their mobility. I tapped into this knowledge by surveying these experts.
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Mobility is positively related to wingspan, range size, host plant breadth and negatively related to conservation risk.
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The next step in this research is see how mobility affects current range shifts. I was part of a team surveying butterflies at broad spatial scales in Canada to begin this work.