Space, Habitat and Isolation are the Key Determinants of Tree Colonization by the Carpenter Ant in Plantation Forests

Véle, Adam; Horák, Jakub

doi:10.3390/f10080630

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“…the positive effect of spatial autocorrelation; e.g. Véle & Horák, 2019). Prior to the final analysis, species data were log‐transformed and rare species were downweighted (Šmilauer & Lepš, 2014).…”

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My home is your home: Nest boxes for birds and mammals provide habitats for diverse insect communities

Jaworski

Gryz

Krauze‐Gryz

et al. 2021

Insect Conserv Diversity

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Cavity‐bearing trees are important nesting sites for many birds and mammals but have become rare due to anthropogenic modification of natural environments. Nest boxes are often used to compensate for the loss of these microhabitats. Nest boxes contain amounts of organic debris exploited by a variety of organisms, mainly insects. We studied the largely unexplored group of nest‐dwelling insects by rearing them from plant detritus and animal remains accumulated in nest boxes of six bird and two mammal species, distributed in forest, farmland and urban environments in Poland. We recorded 119 species representing eight insect orders. Nest substrates composed of plant detritus and animal remains supported similar insect species richness but differed significantly in terms of the insect community composition. Nests of Falco tinnunculus and Tyto alba and also Parus spp. and Strix aluco had very similar insect communities. The structural compositions of insect communities were also similar in nests of Parus spp. and Sturnus vulgaris, and of F. tinnunculus and S. aluco. Flies and earwigs were associated with nests of Parus spp. and Sciurus vulgaris and were more abundant in forests and urban environments, whereas wasps preferred S. aluco nests in forests. Our study shows that nest boxes may serve as replacement habitats for a variety of nest‐associated insects. Therefore, we suggest a more flexible approach to nest boxes maintenance and management, for example, less frequent cleaning or providing more than one nest box in a given place to enhance conservation of nest‐associated insects.

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My home is your home: Nest boxes for birds and mammals provide habitats for diverse insect communities

Jaworski

Gryz

Krauze‐Gryz

et al. 2021

Insect Conserv Diversity

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Economically Important Wood Feeding Insects: Their Diversity, Damage and Diagnostics

Sreedevi

Chandana

Correya

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Science of Wood Degradation and Its Protection

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Tree-related microhabitats are similar in mountain forests of Europe and North America and their occurrence may be explained by tree functional groups

Asbeck

Basile

Stitt

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Key message Drivers of the abundance and richness of tree-related microhabitats are similar in mountain forests of Europe and North America and their occurrence may be explained by tree functional groups. Abstract A common approach to support forest-dwelling species in managed forests is to preserve valuable habitat trees. To assess the quality of habitat trees, a hierarchical typology of tree-related microhabitats (TreMs) is applied in the European context for inventory standardization. The first aim of this study was to evaluate whether it is possible to use this hierarchical typology as a standard protocol regardless of location, which is important for potentially standardizing future studies of TreMs, by testing whether the typology could be applied to the western North American mountain forests of Idaho. The second aim of the study was to analyse drivers that influence TreMs in forests of the region. Thirdly, we assessed whether the occurrence of TreMs could be explained by functional groups of trees across the western mountain forests of Idaho and Central European mountain forests, using TreM inventory data previously collected in the Black Forest, Germany. Abundance and richness of TreMs per tree were analyzed as a function of tree species, live status (dead vs. live trees), diameter at breast height (DBH), and site factors (latitude and altitude). Our results show that the TreM typology could be applied with slight modifications in the forests of Idaho. The abundance and richness of TreMs per tree increased with DBH. Snags offered more TreMs per tree than live trees. We were able to group tree species from the two continents in functional groups that were related to the occurrence of certain TreMs. Tree functional groups offer an opportunity to predict the role of certain tree species for habitat provision through TreMs. Combinations of trees from different functional groups could be used to optimize provisioning of TreMs within forest stands.

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Space, Habitat and Isolation are the Key Determinants of Tree Colonization by the Carpenter Ant in Plantation Forests

Cited by 3 publications

References 45 publications

My home is your home: Nest boxes for birds and mammals provide habitats for diverse insect communities

My home is your home: Nest boxes for birds and mammals provide habitats for diverse insect communities

Economically Important Wood Feeding Insects: Their Diversity, Damage and Diagnostics

Tree-related microhabitats are similar in mountain forests of Europe and North America and their occurrence may be explained by tree functional groups

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