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Human-induced habitat conversion and degradation,along with accelerating climatic change,have resulted in considerable global biodiversity loss.Nevertheless,how local ecological assemblages respond to the interplay between climate and land-use change remains poorly understood.Here,we examined the effects of climate and land-use interac-tions on butterfly diversity in different ecosystems of southwestern China.Specifically,we investigated variation in the alpha and beta diversities of butterflies in different landscapes along human-modified and climate gradients.We found that increasing land-use intensity not only caused a dramatic decrease in butterfly alpha diversity but also significantly sim-plified butterfly species composition in tropical rainforest and savanna ecosystems.These findings suggest that habitat modification by agricultural activities increases the impor-tance of deterministic processes and leads to biotic homogenization.The land-use intensity model best explained species richness variation in the tropical rainforest,whereas the cli-mate and land-use intensity interaction model best explained species richness variation in the savanna.These results indicate that climate modulates the effects of land-use intensity on butterfly alpha diversity in the savanna ecosystem.We also found that the response of species composition to climate varied between sites:specifically,species composition was strongly correlated with climatic distance in the tropical rainforest but not in the savanna.Taken together,our long-term butterfly monitoring data reveal that interactions between human-modified habitat change and climate change have shaped butterfly diversity in tropical rainforest and savanna.These findings also have important implications for biodi-versity conservation under the current era of rapid human-induced habitat loss and climate change.