Shrubland Lepidoptera of southern New England and southeastern New York: ecology, conservation, and management

Wagner, David L.; Nelson, Michael W.; Schweitzer, Dale F.

doi:10.1016/s0378-1127(03)00249-4

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“…In the absence of frequent fire, frost damage, insect herbivory, cutting, or other disturbance, trees invade and barrens convert to closed-canopy forest (Forman, 1979;Little, 1979;Schweitzer and Rawinski, 1988;Thompson, 1995;Kurczewski and Boyle, 2000;. Barrens support a suite of state and globally rare Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) that are dependent on barrens for specific host plants (Schweitzer and Rawinski, 1988;NYNHP, 2002a;Wagner et al, 2003).…”

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Conceptual ecological models for the Long Island pitch pine barrens: implications for managing rare plant communities

Jordan

Patterson

Windisch

2003

Forest Ecology and Management

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Fire dependent pitch pine (Pinus rigida Mill.) and scrub oak (Quercus ilicifolia Wang.) barrens are found on coarse-textured, droughty soils in the northeastern United States. These communities are globablly rare and, in many areas, dependent on active management to sustain them. We used historic and recent aerial photographs of the Central Pine Barrens in New York to develop transition matrices and trajectories of vegetation change. A vegetation map for 1990 provided pre-burn cover type information for a 1,200 ha area burned by an extremely severe wildfire in August 1995. Geographic information system analyses, a firehistory study, post-wildfire research and existing literature provided additional information for development of three conceptual models that describe our understanding of vegetation change in response to fire and land clearing. A simulation model was then used to predict the amount of each cover type in 2046. The reasonableness of the prediction was assessed based on our understanding of pine barrens vegetation dynamics.In 1938, following a period of frequent, intense wildfires of the region, 90% of vegetation in the study area was open canopy barrens (including dwarf pine plains, pitch pine-scrub oak woodland, heath, pine-heath woodland, and scrub oak shrubland). Between 1938 and 1994, wildfires decreased in size, the average area burned per year generally declined, and there were no fires in 70% of the study area. As a result, barrens decreased to $45% of study area vegetation. In August 1995, an unusually severe summer wildfire converted 810 ha of woodland and forest into scrub oak shrubland, and increased barrens to 60% of study area vegetation. Most areas of heath and pine-heath, which comprised 24% of barrens vegetation in 1996, are successional types that developed on formerly cleared land. In the absence of extensive burning, we expect barrens vegetation to be converted to closedcanopy forest as coppice trees and new seedlings mature. Recent changes in fire regimes are likely to result in a loss of barrens vegetation that exceeds predictions of the simulation model. Careful use of prescribed fire and/or mechanical treatments to simulate the effects of fire are recommended for future restoration and maintenance of pitch pine barrens, and for protection of human life and property. #

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Conceptual ecological models for the Long Island pitch pine barrens: implications for managing rare plant communities

Jordan

Patterson

Windisch

2003

Forest Ecology and Management

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“…Hunter et al, 2001;Dettmers, 2003;Wagner et al, 2003). However, the consequences of substantially reducing the abundance of these habitats across regional landscapes will likely have varying demographic consequences because the degree to which species depend on them will certainly vary.…”

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Relative importance of early-successional forests and shrubland habitats to mammals in the northeastern United States

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DeStefano

2003

Forest Ecology and Management

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The majority of the 60 native terrestrial mammal species that reside in the northeastern United States (US) utilize resources from several habitats on a seasonal basis. However, as many as 20 species demonstrate some preference for early-successional forests, shrublands, or old-field habitats. A few of these (e.g. lagomorphs) can be considered obligate users of these habitats, and the specialist carnivores (e.g. felids) that prey on them may consequently also prefer such habitats. Other mammal species that prefer these habitats certainly depend on them to lesser and varying degrees; thus, the consequences of reducing or eliminating early-successional forests, shrublands, or old-field habitats across the landscape will likely have varying demographic consequences, and thus importance, to those species. #

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“…Wagner et al (2003) record it from sand plain pitch pine / scrub oak barrens in northeastern United States. Larvae feed on Bear Oak (Quercus ilicifolia Wangenh.)…”

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“…Zale lunifera occurs primarily east and south of the Appalachian Mountains. Examined material and reliable records indicate a range from southern Maine (Wagner et al 2003) south to Lee Co., Mississippi (D. Schweitzer, pers. comm.)…”

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“…Further comparison to other specimens revealed that both species had traditionally been going under the name Zale lunifera (Hübner), but a second, apparently unnamed taxon had recently been fl agged as one of conservation concern in the north-eastern United States (Wagner et al 2003, NatureServe 2009). Comparisons of genitalic struc-ture, phenotype, DNA barcodes of the putative species, and examination of the namebearing types of the subjective synonyms of Z. lunifera show that names are available for both taxa.…”

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Taxonomic reassessment of Zale lunifera (Hübner) (Erebidae, Erebinae)

Schmidt¹

2010

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In light of the recent discovery of an unrecognized species within nominal Zale lunifera (Hübner), the taxonomy of Z. lunifera is reassessed. Zale intenta (Walker), stat. rev. is the name that applies to the widespread species previously called Z. lunifera. Zale lunifera sensu stricto is the species previously thought to be undescribed; it occurs from the southern Atlantic coastal plain northward to the pine barrens of north-eastern United States. A diff erential diagnosis and adult illustrations of the two species are given.

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Shrubland Lepidoptera of southern New England and southeastern New York: ecology, conservation, and management

Cited by 79 publications

References 35 publications

Conceptual ecological models for the Long Island pitch pine barrens: implications for managing rare plant communities

Conceptual ecological models for the Long Island pitch pine barrens: implications for managing rare plant communities

Relative importance of early-successional forests and shrubland habitats to mammals in the northeastern United States

Taxonomic reassessment of Zale lunifera (Hübner) (Erebidae, Erebinae)

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