The habitat-specific effects of highway proximity on ground-dwelling arthropods: Implications for biodiversity conservation

Knapp, Michal; Saska, Pavel; Knappová, Jana; Vonička, Pavel; Moravec, P.; Kůrka, Antonín; Anděl, Petr

doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2013.04.012

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“…This might be due to the low numbers of individuals trapped in the wet habitats, where pitfall traps were periodically flooded. The higher total numbers of species trapped along roadsides than in adjacent forest are in accordance with the results of the study by Knapp et al (2013), which indicates that species diversity decreases with increasing distance from a highway in forest habitats, and the study by Melis et al (2010). The higher number of species trapped along roadsides can be explained in terms of an edge effect or that a roadside is an ecotonal zone, which determines the beetle assemblages recorded there, i.e.…”

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“…Thus, at Skępe the percentage share of forest species and individuals along the roadside is much lower than in the adjacent forests. Knapp et al (2013) also report an increase in the number of forest species with distance from the highway in a forest environment. This is confirmed also by Vermeulen (1994), Vermeulen & Opdam (1995) and Koivula (2003), who show that roadsides can function as migration corridors, especially for open habitat species.…”

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The effect of the construction and renovation of a highway bypass in Central Poland on the carabid beetle fauna (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

Dymitryszyn¹

2014

Eur. J. Entomol.

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Abstract. The aim of this research was to define the effect of the construction and renovation of a highway bypass around the town of Skępe on the environment and assemblages of carabid beetles. This four-year study was based on catching samples of beetles using pitfall traps. The traps were set first in 2008 and later from 2010 to 2012, after the renovation of the road, along roadside verges adjacent to two ca. 100-year-old pine forest stands, wet habitats and fallows of arable fields and inside these habitats about 25 m from the road (control plots). The carabids collected were identified to species and numbers of individuals and dominance values of each of the species were calculated for each study plot and each year. Furthermore, the dominance of the different species of plants was assessed. Numbers of species, numbers of individuals, percentage share of forest species and individuals, and Shannon diversity values of the carabid assemblages were analyzed. Multivariate statistical analyses (ordinations) were carried out using the dominance of the different species of carabids and using the ecological indicator values of plants as environmental factors. The construction of the bypass in 1987 resulted in more diversified carabid assemblages along the roadsides. Carabid fauna along the roadsides differed from that in the control plots in forests and in terms of some parameters from the control plots in wet habitats, but not statistical from the control plots in the fallow areas of arable fields. The renovation of the road 22 years after construction did not result in any significant changes in the characteristic parameters of the carabid assemblages along the roadsides, but gradient analysis indicated that it did have an effect. In terms of the environmental conditions of the habitats based on the plant associations occurring there the roadside habitats differed from the control plots in forests and wetlands. Since the number of sites studied is rather low, the results of this study have to be considered to be preliminary, but may provide research hypotheses for further research on highway roadsides.

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The effect of the construction and renovation of a highway bypass in Central Poland on the carabid beetle fauna (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

Dymitryszyn¹

2014

Eur. J. Entomol.

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“…Roads can have detrimental impacts on invertebrate species, including barrier effects (Knapp et al, 2013;Koivula & Vermeulen, 2005), and road mortality (Baxter-Gilbert et al, 2015;Keilsohn, Narango, & Tallamy, 2018;Martin et al, 2018;Rao & Girish, 2007;Seibert & Conover, 1991). Roads can have detrimental impacts on invertebrate species, including barrier effects (Knapp et al, 2013;Koivula & Vermeulen, 2005), and road mortality (Baxter-Gilbert et al, 2015;Keilsohn, Narango, & Tallamy, 2018;Martin et al, 2018;Rao & Girish, 2007;Seibert & Conover, 1991).…”

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Little evidence of a road‐effect zone for nocturnal, flying insects

Bhardwaj

Soanes

Lahoz‐Monfort

et al. 2018

Ecology and Evolution

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Roads and traffic may be contributing to global declines of insect populations. The ecological effects of roads often extend far into the surrounding habitat, over a distance known as the road‐effect zone. The quality of habitat in the road‐effect zone is generally degraded (e.g., due to edge effects, noise, light, and chemical pollution) and can be reflected in species presence, abundance, or demographic parameters. Road‐effect zones have been quantified for some vertebrate species but are yet to be quantified for insects. Investigating the road‐effect zone for insects will provide a better understanding of how roads impact ecosystems, which is particularly important given the role insects play as pollinators, predators, and prey for other species. We quantified the road‐effect zone for nocturnal flying insects along three major freeways in agricultural landscapes in southeast Australia. We collected insects using light traps at six points along 2‐km transects perpendicular to each highway (n = 17). We sorted the samples into order, and dried and weighed each order to obtain a measure of dry biomass. Using regression models within a Bayesian framework of inference, we estimated the change in biomass of each order with distance from the road, while accounting for environmental variables such as temperature, moon phase, and vegetation structure. The biomass of nine of the ten orders sampled did not change with distance from the freeway. Orthoptera (i.e., grasshoppers and crickets) was the only order whose biomass increased with distance from the freeway. From our findings, we suggest that the impacts of roads on insects are unlikely extending into the surrounding landscape over a distance of 2 km. Therefore, if there are impacts of roads on insects, these are more likely to be concentrated at the road itself, or on finer taxonomic scales such as family or genus level.

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“…Road ecology, a rapidly developing and new discipline (Forman et al, 2003), is concerned with the many kinds of effects roads (linear infrastructures) have on wildlife. Road ecology, however, overwhelmingly focuses on dangers to vertebrate populations and distribution, while data on invertebrates are scarce (Muñoz et al, 2015; but see Knapp et al, 2013).…”

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Seasonal changes in bruchid (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae) assemblages along managed highway ecotones

Szentesi¹,

György²,

Jermy³

et al. 2017

Eur. J. Entomol.

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The habitat-specific effects of highway proximity on ground-dwelling arthropods: Implications for biodiversity conservation

Cited by 30 publications

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The effect of the construction and renovation of a highway bypass in Central Poland on the carabid beetle fauna (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

The effect of the construction and renovation of a highway bypass in Central Poland on the carabid beetle fauna (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

Little evidence of a road‐effect zone for nocturnal, flying insects

Seasonal changes in bruchid (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae) assemblages along managed highway ecotones

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