Ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) as indicators of change and pattern in the agroecosystem: Longer surveys improve understanding

Eyre, M. D.; McMillan, S.; Critchley, C.N.R.

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.11.009

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“…moisture) supported by the olive trees (e.g., Eyre et al, 2016;Schirmel et al, 2015). Also, a higher proportion of brachypterous species was associated to plots of denser vegetation cover.…”

Section: Effects Of Management and Environmental Features On Carabid mentioning

confidence: 91%

“…overwintering refuge) for many species (Cole et al, 2010;MacLeod et al, 2004;Woodcock et al, 2005). These ecological structures may serve as source areas for many species, and so influencing the number of species within the agricultural landscape (Eyre et al, 2016;Werling and Gratton, 2008;Woodcock et al, 2005).…”

Section: Effects Of Environmental Factors On Carabid Diversitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, carabid beetles play an important role as predators of Bactrocera oleae (Rossi), the major pest of olives in most commercial olive growing regions worldwide (Daane and Johnson, 2010;Dinis et al, 2016). Carabid beetle diversity in olive groves may depend on the direct effects of landuse management, but also on particular features of the landscape mosaic (Fernández-Escobar et al, 2013;Martins da Silva et al, 2011;Romero-Alcaraz and Ávila, 2000). Yet, no attempts have been made to study the relative influence of management intensity and environmental factors at local and landscape levels on carabid beetle communities.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Habitat structure and neighbor linear features influence more carabid functional diversity in olive groves than the farming system

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A B S T R A C TThe effects of land-use management and environmental features at different scales on carabid beetle diversity and trait structure were assessed across olive groves in northeastern Portugal. We selected organic and integrated olive groves that were distinct in terms of specific management practices, local linear features and landscape configurations. Besides the management intensification levels, differences in carabid diversity and community traits were mainly due to local habitat and ecological linear structures at a finer spatial scale. Carabid community traits related to disturbance, namely traits of body size and species dispersal ability, responded to land-use intensity and particular olive grove features were influencing diversity patterns. Within the olive grove patches, larger and brachypterous species were associated to plots with more dense vegetation cover while macropterous and small-sized species were more associated to open areas. Also, larger carabid species benefitted from higher patch size heterogeneity within the landscape mosaics. Our findings indicate that the effects of farming system is contingent on the specific management practices, local and linear features present in agroecosystems such as olive groves. Particularly, the influence of local features on carabid diversity patterns and community traits linked to dispersal and movement may be crucial in maintaining pest control at a landscape scale.

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Section: Effects Of Management and Environmental Features On Carabid mentioning

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Section: Effects Of Environmental Factors On Carabid Diversitymentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Habitat structure and neighbor linear features influence more carabid functional diversity in olive groves than the farming system

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“…Boxes were cleaned, and the shelters and lining changed, twice a week.The parallel-sided ground beetle Abax parallelepipedus (Piller & Mitterpacher; Coleoptera, family Carabidae) was used as our model predator. This large generalist predatory beetle is present in forests and agricultural landscapes in western Europe, although it is rarer in the latter(Duflot et al, 2016;Eyre et al, 2016). Large generalist carabid beetles such as A. parallelepipedus are predators of slugs, including…”

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Bottom-up and top-down control of dispersal across major organismal groups: a coordinated distributed experiment

Legrand

Altermatt

et al. 2017

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Organisms rarely experience a homogeneous environment. Rather, ecological and evolutionary dynamics unfold in spatially structured and fragmented landscapes, with dispersal as the central process linking these dynamics across spatial scales. Because dispersal is a multi-causal and highly plastic life-history trait, finding general drivers that are of importance across species is challenging but highly relevant for ecological forecasting.We here tested whether two fundamental ecological forces and main determinants of local population dynamics, top-down and bottom-up control, generally explain dispersal in spatially structured communities. In a coordinated distributed experiment spanning a wide range of actively dispersing organisms, from protozoa to vertebrates, we show that bottom-up control, that is resource limitation, consistently increased dispersal. While top-down control, that is predation risk, was an equally important dispersal driver as bottom-up control, its effect depended on prey and predator space use and whether dispersal occurred on land, in water or in the air: species that routinely use more space than their predators showed increased dispersal in response to predation, specifically in aquatic environments. After establishing these general causes of dispersal, we used a metacommunity model to show that bottom-up and top-down control of dispersal has important consequences for local population fluctuations as well as cascading effects on regional metacommunity dynamics. Context-dependent dispersal reduced local population fluctuations and desynchronized dynamics between communities, two effects that increase population and community stability.Our study provides unprecedented insights into the generality of the positive resource dependency of dispersal as well as a robust experimental test of current theory predicting that predator-induced dispersal is modulated by prey and predator space use. Our experimental and theoretical work highlights the critical importance of the multi-causal nature of dispersal as well as its cascading effects on regional community dynamics, which are specifically relevant to ecological forecasting.

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“…In the northern hemisphere, the most widely used invertebrate indicator is beetles, especially Carabidae [13,14]. Other invertebrate groups, such as spiders [15], grasshoppers [16], and moths [17], have also been proposed as potentially useful indicators in many countries, but they still suffer from poor knowledge of them.…”

Section: International Journal Of Biodiversitymentioning

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Competence of Litter Ants for Rapid Biodiversity Assessments

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Karunarathna

Karunaratne

2017

International Journal of Biodiversity

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Rapid Biodiversity Assessment approaches associated with focusing taxa have overcome many of the problems related to large scale surveys. This study examined the suitability of litter ants as a focusing taxon by checking whether diversity and species assemblages of litter ants reflect the overall picture of arthropod diversity and assemblages in leaf litter in two vegetation types: secondary forest and pine plantation in Upper Hanthana forest reserve, Sri Lanka. In each vegetation type, arthropods were sampled using three sampling methods (Winkler extraction, hand collection, and pitfall traps) along three 100 m line transects. From the two sites, 1887 litter ants (34 species) and 3488 litter arthropods (52 species) were collected. Species assemblages composition of both ants and other arthropods differed significantly between the two sites (ANOSIM, = 0.001) with both groups generating distinct clusters for the two sites (SIMPROF, = 0.001). But there was no significant correlation ( > 0.05) between abundance and richness of litter ants and those of other arthropods in both vegetation types. The overall finding suggests that the litter ants do not reflect the holistic picture of arthropod diversity and assemblages in leaf litter, but the quality of the habitat for the survival of all litter arthropods.

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Ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) as indicators of change and pattern in the agroecosystem: Longer surveys improve understanding

Cited by 27 publications

References 29 publications

Habitat structure and neighbor linear features influence more carabid functional diversity in olive groves than the farming system

Habitat structure and neighbor linear features influence more carabid functional diversity in olive groves than the farming system

Bottom-up and top-down control of dispersal across major organismal groups: a coordinated distributed experiment

Competence of Litter Ants for Rapid Biodiversity Assessments

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