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Fig. 1. Study location. Map of Lipsi Island, Greece. Yellow
dots indicate the nine urban sites and red dots indicate the nine rural
sites (created in QGIS, satellite imagery from ESRI, 2011).
Fig. 2. Effects of urbanisation on butterflies. (A) Abundance,
(B) species richness, and (C) Shannon diversity of butterflies at nine
urban and nine rural sites. The black boxplots illustrate the median
(bold black line), interquartile range (box margins), 1.5 ×
interquartile range (whiskers), and outliers (black data points), whilst
the mean ± SE are represented by the green diamond and whiskers.
Fig. 3. Effects of urbanisation on birds. (A)
Abundance, (B) species richness, and (C) Shannon diversity of birds at
nine urban and nine rural sites. The black boxplots illustrate the
median (bold black line), interquartile range (box margins), 1.5 ×
interquartile range (whiskers), and outliers (black data points), whilst
the mean ± SE are represented by the green diamond and whiskers.
Fig. 4. Effects of urbanisation on vegetation. Percentage cover
of (A) bare ground, (B) shrubs, (C) trees, and (D) plants, (E) plant
species richness, and (F) Shannon diversity of plants at nine urban and
nine rural sites. The black boxplots illustrate the median (bold black
line), interquartile range (box margins), 1.5 × interquartile range
(whiskers), and outliers (black data points), whilst the mean ± SE are
represented by the green diamond and whiskers.
Fig. 5. Effects of urbanisation on community composition.Non-metric multidimensional scaling of (A) butterfly, (B) bird, and (C)
vegetation community composition. The black circles represent the sites,
the red crosses indicate the species, and ellipses indicate the standard
deviation of urban (blue) and rural (red) sites. The stress indicates
the reliability of the points in two dimensions (lower values of stress
equate to higher confidence).
Fig. 1. Study location. Map of Lipsi Island, Greece. The red
square indicates the location of Lipsi Island in the Aegean Sea. Yellow
dots indicate the nine urban sites and red dots indicate the nine rural
sites (created in QGIS, satellite imagery from ESRI, 2011).