Sampling Insects from Roots

Gange, Alan C.

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“…(2005) who studied another endangered beetle, Osmoderma eremita , and presented distribution, habitat requirements, and possible conservation measures. As with O. eremita , L. cervus presents many challenges for accurate determination of its status, as the larval phase is long and its subterranean nature does not lend itself to traditional sampling methods for such insects (Gange, 2005). Moreover, the adult stage is short lived and conventional traps are of little use for recording its abundance (Young, 2005).…”

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Bionomics and distribution of the stag beetle, Lucanus cervus (L.) across Europe*

Harvey¹,

Gange²,

Hawes³

et al. 2011

Insect Conservation and Diversity

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1. The European stag beetle, Lucanus cervus, is thought to be widely distributed across its range, but a detailed description of its occurrence is lacking.2. Researchers in 41 countries were contacted and information sought on various life history characteristics of the insect. Data on adult body size were collected from seven countries.3. Habitat associations differ between the United Kingdom and mainland Europe. Larvae are most commonly associated with oak, but the duration of the larval stage and the number of instars varies by up to 100% across Europe.4. Adult size also varies; beetles from Spain, Germany, and the Netherlands are larger than those from Belgium or the UK. In the former countries, populations are composed mainly of large individuals, while in the UK, the majority of individuals are relatively small. Allometric relations between mandible size and total body length differ in Germany compared with the rest of Europe.5. Distribution maps of the insect, split into records pre-and post-1970, from 24 countries are presented. While these inevitably suffer from recorder bias, they indicate that in only two countries, Croatia and Slovakia, does the insect seem to be increasing in range.6. Our data suggest that the insect may be in decline across Europe, most likely due to habitat loss, and that conservation plans need to be produced that focus on the biology of the insect in the local area.

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Bionomics and distribution of the stag beetle, Lucanus cervus (L.) across Europe*

Harvey¹,

Gange²,

Hawes³

et al. 2011

Insect Conservation and Diversity

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“…Sampling of subterranean insects without destroying the larval habitat is notoriously difficult (Gange, 2005). We have shown that the detection of longifolene can be used to infer larval presence, but the fact that this can be produced by plants that grow in close proximity to stag beetle larval habitat (e.g.…”

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Development of non-invasive monitoring methods for larvae and adults of the stag beetle, Lucanus cervus

Harvey

Hawes

Gange

et al. 2011

Insect Conservation and Diversity

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1. The stag beetle, Lucanus cervus is Nationally Scarce in the UK, yet no methods exist for monitoring the abundance of adults or presence of the subterranean larvae.2. Here, we describe the design of an aerial flight interception trap that can be used to catch adults. Various lures were tested and ginger root was found to attract both sexes in equal numbers.3. Road transect surveys of adults killed by vehicles were found to produce reliable estimates of the total abundance of both sexes in areas up to about 12 km from the survey. 4. A novel use of radial diffusive samplers is described to infer the presence of larvae. Both larvae and adult females produce longifolene, which is highly attractive to males.5. Larvae produce a characteristic stridulation pattern, which can be recorded and distinguished from sounds produced by other saproxylic beetles that may co-occur with L. cervus.6. We conclude that aerial traps baited with ginger, combined with road transect surveys can be used to monitor population abundance of adults, while detection of longifolene and the characteristic stridulation pattern can be used to reveal larval presence, without destroying their fragile habitat.

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“…These containers were covered with a plastic dish that held a vial with a lure made from a mixture of oats and honey. Although studies have shown that using traps with lures does not show better results for ground ants (Wang, Strazanac, & Butler, 2001), the lure was used because other arthropods were collected, and the lure can promote the growth of fungi that can attract other organisms such as larvae (Gange, 2005). At the same time, the lure can be a potential target for many predatory ants and other arthropods (Yamaguchi & Hasegawa, 1996), and it can be used to aggregate rare species (Woodcock, 2005).…”

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The diversity of ant communities and its connections with other arthropod communities from three temperate forest of Central Mexico

Guzmán-Mendoza

Castaño-Meneses

Núñez-Palenius

2016

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Ants have been considered useful for bioindication because of their ecological characteristics. Nonetheless, among the characteristics of a bioindicator group, there must be a consistent and replicable response to disturbance. In this sense, divergent reactions have been found, even between taxons narrowly related. The objective of this work was to compare the diversity of the ant communities in three different temperate forests with different levels of disturbance, and to correlate their abundance and diversity of species, with that found in other arthropod communities of the same forests. The work was carried out in three municipalities in the North of the State of Mexico, where three types of different forests were identified by their degree of disturbance. These types include: 1) primary forest (PF), with typical species of a conserved forest; 2) mixed forest (MF), with species of a conserved forest and a reforestation effort; and 3) reforested forest (RF), with species used in reforestation efforts and indicative of disturbance. In each sample, an area of 2 500 m 2 was selected. Each area had 16 pitfalls apiece and they were placed 10 m away from each other. Samples were collected twice; one from February through March 2009 (dry season) and another from August through September 2010 (rainy season), which produced a total of 192 traps. Obtained specimens were identified at the most taxonomically specific level. All data captured was transformed to √n + 0.5 and diversity index levels of Shannon and Simpson were calculated, as well as richness of species for ants, beetles, grasshoppers, true bugs, and spiders. The values of richness, diversity, and abundance were correlated with the Pearson coefficient, and to evaluate possible causal relationships between these, a path analysis was performed. Results suggested an important influence of the site over ant communities, and values of richness, abundance and diversity were correlated with the communities of spiders, beetles, grasshoppers and true bugs, but not for all the sites studied. Responses to environmental changes are not only on the numeric proportions of abundance, richness and diversity, but also in the indirect and casual ecological interactions. Finally, the data seems to indicate that the responses of the ants to the environmental changes are not necessarily reflected on other organisms' communities, so the ants' role as bioindicators can be limited. Rev. Biol. Trop. 64 (2): 571-585. Epub 2016 June 01.

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Sampling Insects from Roots

Cited by 5 publications

References 55 publications

Bionomics and distribution of the stag beetle, Lucanus cervus (L.) across Europe*

Bionomics and distribution of the stag beetle, Lucanus cervus (L.) across Europe*

Development of non-invasive monitoring methods for larvae and adults of the stag beetle, Lucanus cervus

The diversity of ant communities and its connections with other arthropod communities from three temperate forest of Central Mexico

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