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Acknowledgements

- Relative resource abundance explains butterfly biodiversity in island communities

We thank I. Hanski, R. Butlin, T. Fukami, J. Urabe, A. Mizuno, T. Yoshida, J. Bridle, M. Tokeshi, A. Satake, and S. Chiba for valuable comments on the manuscript and K. Saito, Y. Nukatsuka, and other member of the laboratory of Evolutionary Biology for field assistance. M.K. was supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research 15370007 from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

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Abbreviations: AIC, Akaike information criterion.

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kawata@mail.tains.tohoku.ac.jp

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Author contributions: N.Y. and M.K. designed research; N.Y., J.Y., and M.K. performed research; N.Y., J.Y., and M.K. analyzed data; and M.K. wrote the paper.

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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