MONITORING ON BUTTERFLY (RHOPALOCERA) DIVERSITY AT BANDUNG INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS GANESHA, BANDUNG, INDONESIA
A healthy ecosystem is an ecosystem that is able to maintain its organizational structure and biodiversity and has the function on energy and material cycles in the form of natural resources that are resistant to external pressures. Ganesha Campus, Taman Ganesha, and Babakan Siliwangi are important...
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| Format: | Final Project |
| Language: | Indonesia |
| Online Access: | https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/42758 |
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| Institution: | Institut Teknologi Bandung |
| Language: | Indonesia |
| Summary: | A healthy ecosystem is an ecosystem that is able to maintain its organizational structure and biodiversity and has the function on energy and material cycles in the form of natural resources that are resistant to external pressures. Ganesha Campus, Taman Ganesha, and Babakan Siliwangi are important areas for Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) student activities. Therefore, it is important to conduct regular monitoring on biotic community for the areas. One of the bioindicator in determining ecosystem health is butterfly diversity. This species is sensitive to environmental changes. This study aims to monitor butterfly diversity at the ITB Campus and compared with the same study on 2009. Butterfly observation was conducted using standard walk. The study was conducted from 07:00 to 17:00 during 15 days in May 2019. Butterfly diversity index calculated using the Shannon-Wiener index (H’) formula. The results found a total of 34 species with Leptosia nina as a dominant species. The butterfly diversity showed similar index at all study site (Ganesha Campus was 2.485, Taman Ganesha was 2.027, and Babakan Siliwangi was 2.136). The Occurrence in 2019 was different from the study in 2009. There are 16 species found in both studies in 2019 and 2009. However, there are 18 species found in 2019 but no information recorded in 2009. There are 9 species recorded in 2009 but were not found in 2019 such as Catopsilia crocale, Celastrina cosmolyce, Cyrestis. lutea, Danaida similis, Delias periboea, Euploea leucostictos, Gandaca harina, Junonia evarete, and Ypthima philomela. The comparison between two studies showed an increase of 5.297% on butterfly diversity, this result could be an indicator of ecosystem health at Ganesha Campus.
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