Occurrence of the marbled rose-chafer (Protaetia lugubris Herbst, Coleoptera, Cetoniidae) in rural avenues in northern poland

Oleksa, Andrzej; Ulrich, Werner; Gawroński, R

doi:10.1007/s10841-005-4830-1

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“…Recently, plantings of trees along roads were recognized as an important habitat for several vulnerable, tree-dependent insects in cultural landscapes (Oleksa et al 2006(Oleksa et al , 2007 distances, our results indicate that avenues alone are sufficient to ensure relatively high levels of gene exchange. Since the models with high conductance of avenues and lower conductance of other landscape features were as good as the models assuming homogenous space in explaining the observed pattern of kinship, we may conclude that a network of avenues is sufficient to maintain relatively high level of gene flow, even if a large proportion of the landscape is composed of areas in which dispersal is costly.…”

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Rural avenues as dispersal corridors for the vulnerable saproxylic beetle Elater ferrugineus in a fragmented agricultural landscape

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Understanding factors that limit gene flow through the landscape is crucial for conservation of organisms living in fragmented habitats. We analysed patterns of gene flow in Elater ferrugineus, an endangered click beetle living in old-growth, hollow trees in a network of rural avenues surrounded by inhospitable arable land. Using amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) data, we aimed to evaluate if the landscape features important for the beetle's development are also important for its dispersal. By dividing the sampling area into 30 9 30 m cells, with each cell categorised into one of four classes according to its putative permeability for dispersing beetles, and by correlating matrices of genetic and landscape resistance distances, we evaluated which of the landscape models had the best fit with the observed kinship structure. Significant correlations between genetic and Euclidean distances were detected, which indicated that restricted dispersal is the main constraint driving differentiation between populations of E. ferrugineus. Out of 81 landscape models in total, 54 models yielded significantly weaker correlation between matrices of pairwise kinship and effective distances than the null model. Regression analysis pointed to avenues as having the highest and positive impact on the concordance between matrices of kinship and landscape distances, while open arable land had the opposite effect. Our study thus shows that tree avenues can function as efficient dispersal corridors for E. ferrugineus, highlighting the importance of saving such avenues to increase the connectivity among suitable habitat patches, thereby reducing the risk of local extinctions of E. ferrugineus as well as other saproxylic organisms.

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Rural avenues as dispersal corridors for the vulnerable saproxylic beetle Elater ferrugineus in a fragmented agricultural landscape

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“…Larvae of O. eremita and other flower chafers were found only in 10% and 30% of investigated hollow trees. In a similar study carried out along rural avenues of Poland, O. eremita was observed in 12% of investigated trees ( N = 3932), whereas another flower chafer species, Protaetia lugubris (Herbst, 1786), was observed in 7.4% of the same set of trees (Oleksa et al ., ). The same percentage of trees inhabited by O. eremita was reported in another similar study carried out along rural avenues of France ( N = 199) (Dubois et al ., ).…”

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“…Therefore, the percentage of inhabited hollow trees by O. eremita in Mediterranean woodlands and agricultural landscapes in central Europe is very similar. Comparison between the percentage of inhabited trees by other species of flower chafers from our study and P. lugubris (Oleksa et al ., ) is impossible, due to the limits on the identification of larvae in the field that we had in this study. The basic occupancy parameter, ψ , which corresponds to the probability that a hollow tree in the study area was occupied by larvae of these beetles, was relatively low for both groups ( O. eremita = 0.36; other flower chafers = 0.42).…”

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“…the loose material present inside the cavities mainly consisting of rotten wood (Ranius, ). This microhabitat is of a high conservation value for a wide range of invertebrates, birds, and mammals (Jonsell et al ., ; Gibbons & Lindenmayer, ; Ranius et al ., ), and can host both forest specialist species and more generalist species, such as larvae of other flower chafers (Oleksa et al ., ; Micó et al ., ). Although O. eremita has received much attention since the 1990s (Ranius & Nilsson, ; Ranius, ; Jönsson et al ., ; Chiari et al ., ), its interactions with other species at the larval stage in the southern part of its range, i.e.…”

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Interactions between larvae of the threatened saproxylic beetle Osmoderma eremita and other flower chafers in Mediterranean woodlands: implications for conservation

Chiari

Zauli

Audisio

et al. 2014

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Interactions between larvae of one of the most charismatic and threatened saproxylic beetles, Osmoderma eremita (Scopoli, 1763), and other flower chafer species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) were investigated by taking samples of wood mould, i.e. loose material inside the cavity, from 151 living hollow trees in two Mediterranean woodlands during August 2010. Multi‐species occupancy models estimate low occupancy probabilities for both O. eremita (ψ ± SE = 0.36 ± 0.13) and other flower chafer species (0.42 ± 0.06), which showed similar microhabitat requirements without competing. In cavities where larvae of both groups were present, the probability of detecting O. eremita during the sieving of 2 l of wood mould was not affected by whether larvae of other flower chafers occur in the same sample and vice versa. Unexpectedly, larvae of O. eremita were detected with a higher probability when larvae of other flower chafers occurred in the cavity. Model selection statistics strongly support that increasing the sampled volume of wood mould increases the probability of detecting larvae, especially for O. eremita. Wood mould sampling resulted in a reliable method for detecting the presence of O. eremita larvae, but further studies are needed to investigate the potential damage caused by this procedure in the fragile microhabitat of tree cavities. To preserve populations of O. eremita and other flower chafers, management actions should be focused on increasing the density of hollow trees and the volume of tree cavities by favouring the natural ageing of trees and by creating artificial habitats in living trees.

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“…These inexpensive methods allow direct assessment of the species presence (Köhler 2001). Unlike bigger coleopteran species (Dubois 2009;Jönsson et al 2004;Oleksa et al 2006), frass of L. violaceus are unidentifiable. The larva is well known (Whitehead 2003) but due to its cryptic way of life, these methods involve highly experienced entomologists (Müller et al 2007) and accessibility to wood-mould.…”

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Emergence trap, a new method to survey Limoniscus violaceus (Coleoptera: Elateridae) from hollow trees

Gouix

Brustel

2011

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The study of insects inhabiting basal hollow trees presents a methodological challenge inducing the fact that there is very little research done on fauna of this habitat. Many endangered saproxylic species only develop in cavities located at ground level. One of the most emblematic species of the kind is the Violet Click Beetle (Limoniscus violaceus), included in Annex II of the UE ''Habitats'' Directive. Surveys have been conducted in five Natura 2000 areas using a new method to monitor L. violaceus: the emergence traps. A total of 376 beetle species, including 239 saproxylics, have been identified. Five are considered threatened and are registered on the European Red List of saproxylic beetles and three are included in Annex II of the ''Habitats'' Directive. Among 191 trees studied, 33 revealed the presence of L. violaceus. Sampling efforts required to detect at least one specimen have been evaluated. Our results show that sampling a minimum of 20 hollow trees in April and May with emergence traps is recommended to obtain a meaningful survey on the presence of the Violet Click Beetle.

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Occurrence of the marbled rose-chafer (Protaetia lugubris Herbst, Coleoptera, Cetoniidae) in rural avenues in northern poland

Cited by 14 publications

References 8 publications

Rural avenues as dispersal corridors for the vulnerable saproxylic beetle Elater ferrugineus in a fragmented agricultural landscape

Rural avenues as dispersal corridors for the vulnerable saproxylic beetle Elater ferrugineus in a fragmented agricultural landscape

Interactions between larvae of the threatened saproxylic beetle Osmoderma eremita and other flower chafers in Mediterranean woodlands: implications for conservation

Emergence trap, a new method to survey Limoniscus violaceus (Coleoptera: Elateridae) from hollow trees

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