Conserving a geographically isolated Charaxes butterfly in response to habitat fragmentation and invasive alien plants
In South Africa, much Umbrella Stand of the forest biome is vulnerable to human-induced disturbance.The forest-dwelling butterfly Charaxes xiphares occidentalis is naturally confined to a small forest region in the south-western Cape, South Africa.Most of the remaining habitat of this species is within a fragmented agricultural matrix.Furthermore,