EPAPER Changes in rain forest butterfly diversity following major ENSO-induced fires in

Aims Throughout South-East Asia, droughts associated with ENSO (El Niflo Southern Oscillation) events have resulted in large-scale fires affecting millions of hectares of rain forest. However, the long-term impacts of these fires on the rain forest faunas are only poorly understood. Our aim was to study the recovery of rain forest butterfly assemblages following the 1997-98 ENSO event, which resulted in the largest-scale fires in the recorded history of the region.