Insect Biodiversity in the Palearctic Region

Константинов, А. С.; Korotyaev, B. A.; Volkovitsh, M. G.

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“…The eastern Palaearctic fauna includes a number of chironomid taxa which are not found in the western Palaearctic. Whilst this may be because climatic conditions are different in the eastern than western Palaearctic, a number of other insect groups have similar differences due to historical reasons such as glaciation, climate history and postglacial dispersal (Konstantinov et al, 2009). The ordinations suggest that the distribution and abundance of chironomids in both the Norway and Russian data-sets are influenced by many of the same environmental variables.…”

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The distribution and abundance of chironomids in high-latitude Eurasian lakes with respect to temperature and continentality: development and application of new chironomid-based climate-inference models in northern Russia

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Brooks

Birks

et al. 2011

Quaternary Science Reviews

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a b s t r a c tThe large landmass of northern Russia has the potential to influence global climate through amplification of climate change. Reconstructing climate in this region over millennial timescales is crucial for understanding the processes that affect the global climate system. Chironomids, preserved in lake sediments, have the potential to produce high resolution, low error, quantitative summer air temperature reconstructions. Canonical correspondence analysis of modern surface sediments from high-latitude lakes, located in northern European Russia and central Siberia, suggests that mean July air temperature is the most significant variable explaining chironomid distribution and abundance. This strong relationship enabled the development of a chironomid-based mean July air temperature-inference model based on 81 lakes and 89 taxa which has a r jack 2 ¼ 0.92 and RMSEP ¼ 0.89 C. Comparison of taxon responses to July temperature between this Russian and existing Norwegian data-sets shows that the temperature optima of individual taxa were between 1 and 3 C higher in the Russian data regardless of modelling technique. Reconstructions based on fossil assemblages from a Russian tundra lake core (VORK5) using a Norwegian chironomid-based inference model provide mean July air temperature estimates that are 1.0e2.7 C colder than from the 81-lake Russian model and are also lower than the instrumental record from a nearby meteorological station. The Norwegian model also did not reconstruct decadal-scale fluctuations in temperature seen in the instrumental record. These observations suggest that chironomid-based inference models should only be applied to sediment cores which have similar climate regimes to the geographic area of the training set. In addition a 149 lake, 120 taxa chironomid-based continentality inference model was also developed from the modern Norwegian and Russian training sets. A 2-component WA-PLS model was the minimal adequate model with r jack 2 ¼ 0.73 and RMSEP ¼ 9.9 using the Gorczynski continentality index. Comparison of reconstructed continentality indices from the tundra lake, VORK5, show close agreement with local instrumental records over the past 70 years and suggest that the model is reliable. Recent warming in the Arctic has been spatially and seasonally heterogeneous; in many areas warming is more pronounced in the spring and autumn leading to a lengthening of the summer, while summer temperatures have remained relatively stable. A continentality inference model has the potential to detect these seasonal changes in climate.

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The distribution and abundance of chironomids in high-latitude Eurasian lakes with respect to temperature and continentality: development and application of new chironomid-based climate-inference models in northern Russia

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Birks

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“…For the purpose of updating of faunal taxa and diversity, the relevant published works (national and international) besides, online data on taxonomic surveys and systematic checklist / catalogues of the world, have been consulted. For updating of changes pertaining to systematics of taxa, the important monographs and online databases followed are: Anon (2016a,b); Bright (2014); Cline et al (2014); Danilevsky (2015); Kirejtshuk and Mantic (2015); Konstantinov et al (2009);Lobl and Smetana (2010); Smith and Andrew (2006).…”

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Coleopteran-fauna (Insecta) Infesting Fruit Plantations in Jammu & Kashmir State (India): An Annotated Checklist and Biodiversity

Bhagat¹

2017

Int. J. Curr. Res. Biosci. Plant Biol.

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A b s t r a c t A r t i c l e I n f oThis paper deals with 47 species of Coleopterans, belonging to 37 genera, distributed over 11 families, are associated with different kinds of fruit plantations, occurring in vast localities and areas of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh regions. The drupaceous fruit crops (stone, nut, ber), pome (apple, pear quince), berries and aggregate, have been found to be infested with 26 spp., 21 spp., 9 spp. and 1 sp. of Coleopterans under different families respectively. The apple fruit trees /crops (Malus domestica), showed highest number of Coleopteran species i.e., 21, belonging to 8 families. This accounts for 44.68% of total Coleopteran-fauna of this region studied. This is followed by nut fruit crop (Juglans regia), with 12 spp. of Coleopterans species, accounts for 25.53% of total Coleopteran species of horticultural importance. The Scarabaeidae is found to be dominant family, having 15 spp., infesting diverse fruit plantations. This family in dominance is followed by Curculionidae, having 10 species damaging fruit plantations of J & K State. An up-todate annotated systematic Check list has been provided. Besides this, information on biodiversity has also been given.

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“…All these plant families have many specialized herbivores among the Coleoptera (beetles). This insect order, comprising 24 superfamilies with 211 families of insects (Bouchard et al 2011) with hard integument and extreme diversification of habits, constitutes a core of the invertebrate xerophilous assemblages both in the steppe (Korotyaev 2000;Konstantinov et al 2009) and deserts (Kaplin 1981;Mamaev et al 1982;Korotyaev et al 1983;Alexeev & Volkovitsh 1989;Soyunov 1991;Volkovitsh & Alexeev 1992Konstantinov et al 2009). Many desert plants and those forming communities on screes have specialized herbivores among Coleoptera (Tokgayev & Nepesova 1964;Krivosheina 1975;Gurbannepesov & Begov 1976;Korotyaev & Gültekin 2003;Korotyaev et al 2012).…”

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Bioindicator beetles and plants in desertified and eroded lands in Turkey

Korotyaev

Gültekin

Volkovitsh

et al. 2016

J. Insect Biodiversity

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The xerophilous vegetation with characteristic insect assemblages is described in the main agricultural regions and native landscapes of Turkey. Long term intensive investigations documented vast biotic degradation of soil and vegetation (commonly referred to as desertification) by overgrazing, construction, recreation etc. Two main types of xeric landscape are under investigation: 1) natural highly specific deserts, semi-deserts, dry mountain slopes and screes; and 2) anthropogenic, newly emerged, floristically impoverished desertified areas. The presence of a multi-species insect assemblage on a xerophilous plant in certain area testifies its indigenous nature, whereas the absence of the specific consortium suggests recent plant invasion. The examples of the first case are the consortia of 3-6 species of Coleoptera, mainly Buprestidae, Chrysomelidae, and Curculionoidea, on some Apiaceae, Asteraceae, Brassicaceae, Chenopodiaceae, Ephedraceae (Ephedra spp.) and Polygonaceae (Calligonum polygonoides L.). Extreme examples of anthropogenic vegetation are overgrazed wormwood steppe and semidesert which lack usually diversified coleopterous consortia, including the most characteristic of this landscape, e.g., tenebrionids, and orthopterans. Rapid disappearance of the xerophilous complexes from the extraordinarily diversified and largely uninventoried Turkish biota makes preservation of the endangered plant and animal assemblages in different climatic zones of Turkey an urgent task. Bioindicator beetles and plantsKorotyaev et al.

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Insect Biodiversity in the Palearctic Region

Cited by 51 publications

References 20 publications

The distribution and abundance of chironomids in high-latitude Eurasian lakes with respect to temperature and continentality: development and application of new chironomid-based climate-inference models in northern Russia

The distribution and abundance of chironomids in high-latitude Eurasian lakes with respect to temperature and continentality: development and application of new chironomid-based climate-inference models in northern Russia

Coleopteran-fauna (Insecta) Infesting Fruit Plantations in Jammu & Kashmir State (India): An Annotated Checklist and Biodiversity

Bioindicator beetles and plants in desertified and eroded lands in Turkey

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