Seasonal dispersal of water beetles (Coleoptera) in an agricultural landscape: a study using Moericke traps in northwest Spain

Miguélez, David; Valladares, Luis F.

doi:10.1080/00379271.2008.10697570

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“…In agreement with published studies, we found that wind speed was negatively correlated with the flight arrivals of both coleopterans and hemipterans (e.g., Pajunen and Jansson 1969;Landin and Stark 1973;Csabai and Boda 2005). Although air temperature is the most widely reported significant variable for both coleopteran (Lundkvist et al 2002;Klečka 2008;Miguélez and Valladares 2008) and hemipteran flight (Popham 1964;Weigelhofer et al 1992;Boda and Csabai 2009a), in our study we found no effect of air temperature on flight. The explanation of this lack of relationship in our study could be the increase of flight activity during the last weeks of the dry phases and the fact that the temperatures at these times were similar to those in the previous weeks.…”

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confidence: 82%

“…Thus, the drying process seems to have been more determinant than temperature. In contrast, we found a negative effect of air humidity on abundance and species richness, an effect that has not been observed in other studies (e.g., Landin and Stark 1973;Weigelhofer et al 1992;Boda and Csabai 2009b), although negative effects of rain on aquatic insect flight has been reported (Landin and Stark 1973;Csabai et al 2006;Miguélez and Valladares 2008). While high air humidity is considered advantageous for flying aquatic insects due to the reduced risk of dehydration, diel flight patterns generally show a peak flight activity around noon and in the afternoon when humidity is usually low (Csabai et al 2006).…”

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confidence: 69%

“…Many of these abundant coleopteran and hemipteran species corresponded with those previously reported from studies on aerial dispersion in temporary ponds. The genus Helophorus contains highly dispersive [Fernando 1958;Landin 1976;Miguélez and Valladares 2008], and H. orientalis in North America [Fernando and Galbraith 1973; this study]). Other taxa also common in other studies are species of the hydrophilid genus Anacaena (both in Europe and North America; e.g., Fernando and Galbraith 1973;Landin 1976;Klečka 2008) or of the hemipteran genus Sigara, which has been identified as a highly dispersive taxon (Brown 1951;Fernando 1959;Boda and Csabai 2009a).…”

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Environmental Influence on Flight Activity and Arrival Patterns of Aerial Colonizers of Temporary Ponds

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Arrival of aerial insect colonizers was studied (from April to July) using traps (artificial pools) installed adjacent to two temporary ponds in southern Ontario, Canada. The two ponds differed in the length of their hydroperiod: Pond I held water for 98 days, whereas Pond II held water for 34 days. The duration of the study was 15 weeks, during which two phases (wet and dry) were distinguished in each trap according to the presence or absence of water in their respective ponds. Atmospheric, habitat and pond variables were measured to determine the variations in the composition and in the richness and abundance of the aerial colonizers. Taxa captured arriving at the two traps by flight comprised 11 and 57 species of Hemiptera and Coleoptera, respectively. Multivariate analysis (CCA) and mixed linear effects models (LME and GLMM) showed that arrival phenology was more related to habitat condition (pond or phase) than to atmospheric conditions, although wind speed and minimum relative humidity appeared to play a secondary role. Arrival patterns were classifiable into four types (using GAM models), with all four observed in both ponds. While some species exhibited similar arrival patterns in both ponds, others did not.

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Environmental Influence on Flight Activity and Arrival Patterns of Aerial Colonizers of Temporary Ponds

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“…The experiments were conducted across three different seasons: just after postpupae state in July (summer), prior to hibernation in September (autumn), and posthibernation during the main reproductive period in May (spring). A total of 1,128 individuals were examined: A. canaliculatus n = 242, A. sulcatus n = 164, G. bilineatus n = 232, G. cinereus n = 338, and G. zonatus n = 152 dispersal rates of Acilius throughout the season resemble the dispersal patterns of other highly dispersive diving beetles (Boda & Csabai, 2013;Lundkvist, Landin, & Karlsson, 2002;Miguélez & Valladares, 2008). In contrast, the restricted dispersal events in Graphoderus may be related to the oogenesis-flight syndrome (Dingle, 1972).…”

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Time‐restricted flight ability influences dispersal and colonization rates in a group of freshwater beetles

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et al. 2017

Ecology and Evolution

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Variation in the ability to fly or not is a key mechanism for differences in local species occurrences. It is increasingly acknowledged that physiological or behavioral mechanisms rather than morphological differences may drive flight abilities. However, our knowledge on the seasonal variability and stressors creating nonmorphological differences in flight abilities and how it scales to local and regional occurrences is very limited particularly for small, short‐lived species such as insects. Here, we examine how flight ability might vary across seasons and between two closely related genera of freshwater beetles with similar geographical ranges, life histories, and dispersal‐related morphology. By combining flight experiments of >1,100 specimens with colonization rates in a metacommunity of 54 ponds in northern and eastern Europe, we have analyzed the relationship between flight ability and spatio‐environmental distribution of the study genera. We find profound differences in flight ability between the two study genera across seasons. High flight ability for Acilius (97% of the tested individuals flew during the experiments) and low for Graphoderus (14%) corresponded to the different colonization rates of newly created ponds. Within a 5‐year period, 81 and 31% of the study ponds were colonized by Acilius and Graphoderus, respectively. While Acilius dispersed throughout the season, flight activity in Graphoderus was restricted to stressed situations immediately after the emergence of adults. Regional colonization ability of Acilius was independent of spatial connectivity and mass effect from propagule sources. In contrast, Graphoderus species were closely related to high connectivity between ponds in the landscape. Our data suggest that different dispersal potential can account for different local occurrences of Acilius and Graphoderus. In general, our findings provide some of the first insights into the understanding of seasonal restrictions in flight patterns of aquatic beetles and their consequences for species distributions.

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“…Lundkvist et al (2002) and Boda and Csabai (2009) also identified air temperature as an important variable explaining active dispersion in these groups. One coleopteran species (Helophorus brevipalpis) was proven to disperse a month earlier in Spain (Miguélez and Valladares 2008) than in Sweden (Landin and Stark 1973;Landin 1980). However, while temperature may explain the expected dynamics in KD ponds (Bilton et al 2001;Cáceres and Soluk 2002), it is likely that other factors prevailed in BA.…”

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How do early successional patterns in man-made wetlands differ between cold temperate and Mediterranean regions?

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The early stages of succession in newly created wetlands should be impacted by the region in which the wetland is located, since climate may have filtered the dominant biological strategies of the taxa leading this process and may condition their dynamics. We studied the early successional patterns of macroinvertebrates within man made ponds, located in cold temperate (Scandinavian Peninsula) and Mediterranean regions (Iberian Peninsula), during the first three years following their creation. We predicted (1) non random subsets of the regional species pool (deterministic assembly) guiding the successional process in cold temperate wetlands, and random (stochastic) assembly in the Mediterranean region; (2) higher successional rates in Mediterranean ponds than in the cold temperate ponds, with contrary episodes of highest and lowest change throughout the year; and (3) a significant difference in the composition of biological traits between regions, due to the dominance of traits adapted to hydrological variability in the Mediterranean region. Hypotheses on community structure (1) and the composition of dominant biological traits (3) were mostly supported - deterministic assembly mechanisms in the cold temperate ponds and stochastic assembly in the Mediterranean ponds; and a dominance of different biological traits between regions, explained by the need to overcome hydrological disturbances in the Mediterranean ponds. The dynamics of succession (2) were explained by climatic factors in the cold temperate region but not in the Mediterranean ponds. We suggest that the intrinsic hydrological variability of Mediterranean lentic systems may be a major factor driving community changes in man-made wetlands in this region. In order to generalize the observed patterns, we performed a meta-analysis of the temporal trends of taxonomic distinctness parameters of other successional studies across a latitudinal gradient in Europe, which supported the differences we had observed between latitudinal extremesThis work was supported by a PhD grant and a Scientific Research grant (CGL2011-23907) from the Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnologia of the Spanish Governmen

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Seasonal dispersal of water beetles (Coleoptera) in an agricultural landscape: a study using Moericke traps in northwest Spain

Cited by 16 publications

References 12 publications

Environmental Influence on Flight Activity and Arrival Patterns of Aerial Colonizers of Temporary Ponds

Environmental Influence on Flight Activity and Arrival Patterns of Aerial Colonizers of Temporary Ponds

Time‐restricted flight ability influences dispersal and colonization rates in a group of freshwater beetles

How do early successional patterns in man-made wetlands differ between cold temperate and Mediterranean regions?

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