we investigated the butterfly communities in five different vertical
vegetation belts of Changbai Mountain in China from 1992 to 2009; these belts were broadleaf
deciduous forest, coniferous–deciduous mixed forest, coniferous forest, erman’s birch forest and alp tundra.
We determined the number of species and abundance of butterflies in each belt and in the coniferous–
deciduous mixed forest belt, we also compared these parameters among different months.