The use of ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) and spiders (Araneae) as bioindicators of sustainable forest management: A review

Pearce, Jennie; Venier, Lisa A.

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2005.03.005

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“…Much research has found that ground beetles respond to different forest management systems (Werner and Raffa, 2000;du Bus de Warnaffe and Lebrun, 2004;Pearce and Venier, 2006). In this study, the diversity of forest specialist carabids was higher in OC.…”

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“…Usually, forest species prefer cooler and moister sites, characterized by small fluctuations over time (Pearce and Venier, 2006). These conditions occur in stands characterized by limited natural or anthropogenic disturbance, where a closed canopy moderates ground surface conditions.…”

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“…Most of the studies of carabid diversity in forest habitats have focused on the effects of habitat fragmentation (Davies and Margules, 1998;Niemelä, 2001;Koivula and Vermeulen, 2005), edge effects (Heliölä et al, 2001;Koivula et al, 2004;Negro et al, 2009), or forestry practices (Werner and Raffa, 2000;Pearce and Venier, 2006;Taboada et al, 2006). The latter affect particularly large-sized and brachypterous (short or reduced wings) habitat specialists, which have limited dispersal capacity (Kotze and O'Hara, 2003).…”

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Effects of forest management on ground beetle diversity in alpine beech ( Fagus sylvatica L.) stands

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Forest Ecology and Management

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Effects of forest management on ground beetle diversity in alpine beech ( Fagus sylvatica L.) stands

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Forest Ecology and Management

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“…org/science/fsu). Carabids are found in many habitats and are known to be differentially sensitive to disturbance, pollution, habitat structure, and other forms of environmental change (Lö vei and Sunderland 1996, Dufrêne and Legendre 1997, Rainio and Niemelä 2003, Pearce and Venier 2006.…”

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A meta‐analysis of the effects of urbanization on ground beetle communities

Martinson

Raupp

2013

Ecosphere

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Abstract. Urbanization is one of the most disruptive forms of land use, and its effects on ecological communities are likely to increase as the human population continues to shift from rural to urban living. Whether the myriad changes encompassed by urbanization (e.g., habitat fragmentation, the urban heat island effect, disturbance) affect biological communities in predictable ways remains unresolved. In this study, we employed meta-analysis to quantify the overall effects of urbanization on ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae), an ecologically diverse and important group that has been relatively well-studied in cities. We calculated effect sizes for carabid species richness, the total abundance of beetles at a site (assemblage abundance), and the abundances of individual species at urban compared to rural forested sites. We found that the number of carabid species in cities was only 77.6% that of corresponding rural sites, whereas assemblage abundance was relatively consistent between rural and urban sites. Such assemblage-level patterns resulted from the loss of certain species from urban sites and the increase in abundance of others. We hypothesized that differences among species would be largely attributable to their ecological traits (body size, habitat affinity, dispersal ability, trophic position). Through model selection based on information theoretic measures, we found support for the importance of the simple and interactive effects of beetle size, habitat affinity, and trophic position, with the most negative effect sizes for large, forest-specialist beetles that were predatory or omnivorous. Although species traits were key to understanding variation in species abundance effect sizes, several remaining sources of variation in carabid beetle responses to urbanization remain. Specifically, although many species exhibited consistent responses across the studies in which they were sampled and might therefore be considered urban avoiders or urban exploiters, many others were either relatively insensitive to the urbanization gradients or exhibited widely disparate responses across studies. Furthermore, we were unable to attribute variation in species richness and assemblage abundance effect sizes to available measures such as city size and study duration. Instead, additional mechanistic studies across the urbanization gradient will be necessary to understand such variation among studies and for species exhibiting variable responses.

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“…For this purpose, we used large collections of carabids from grasslands in a natural river valley. Ground beetles constitute a species-rich and relatively well known taxonomic group of invertebrates, commonly used for ecological studies and acting as bioindicators (Luff 2007;Pearce and Venier 2006;Rainio and Niemelä 2003). We applied species richness estimations and sampling efficiency assessment methods to show that even using intensive sampling at a small spatial scale, we are still far from able to completely recognize the carabid community.…”

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Never ending story: a lesson in using sampling efficiency methods with ground beetles

2012

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Biological inventory is a crucial activity in life sciences field research. However, it is sometimes timeconsuming and laborious to take representative samplings of communities, especially in the case of invertebrates. In this paper, we address the issue of sampling efficiency and its influence on obtained results. As a study system, we used data on epigeic carabid beetles (Carabidae) collected in 1999-2001 in the Warta River valley of western Poland. We trapped a total of 17,722 individuals belonging to 108 species. However, due to rarefaction methods, the expected number of species was estimated at 134-140, suggesting that from 26 to 32 species are missing from the material, even expressed as a huge number of collected specimens. The estimated probability that another captured individual will represent a new species (i.e. a species that was not already recorded) is 0.0010. In order to record all the species present in the study area, another 193,338 individuals need to be sampled (abundance-based approach) or another 1,871 samples need to be collected (incidencebased approach). This means that the collected material should be 10.9 times greater (or 7.9 times greater for incidence-based data) than what was actually collected in order to record all the species present in the study area. The results show that, in practice, full inventory is simply nearly impossible to achieve, and this knowledge should be included in inventory planning. Therefore, we argue that species accumulation curves and unseen species estimators need to be carefully examined and threshold probability of detecting a new species should be built into the design of inventory science. The ratio between recorded and estimated species richness and the estimated efficiency of further sampling can be easily computed with available freeware software and should be incorporated when performing biological inventories.

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The use of ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) and spiders (Araneae) as bioindicators of sustainable forest management: A review

Cited by 348 publications

References 66 publications

Effects of forest management on ground beetle diversity in alpine beech ( Fagus sylvatica L.) stands

Effects of forest management on ground beetle diversity in alpine beech ( Fagus sylvatica L.) stands

A meta‐analysis of the effects of urbanization on ground beetle communities

Never ending story: a lesson in using sampling efficiency methods with ground beetles

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