Dung-visiting beetle diversity is mainly affected by land use, while community specialization is driven by climate
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/60460709:41330/22:91435
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=7gCCHhUqMJ" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=7gCCHhUqMJ</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9386" target="_blank" >10.1002/ece3.9386</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Dung-visiting beetle diversity is mainly affected by land use, while community specialization is driven by climate
Original language description
Dung beetles are important actors in the self-regulation of ecosystems by driving nutrient cycling, bioturbation, and pest suppression. Urbanization and the sprawl of agricultural areas, however, destroy natural habitats and may threaten dung beetle diversity. In addition, climate change may cause shifts in geographical distribution and community composition. We used a space-for-time approach to test the effects of land use and climate on alpha-diversity, local community specialization (H-2 ') on dung resources, and gamma-diversity of dung-visiting beetles. For this, we used pitfall traps baited with four different dung types at 115 study sites, distributed over a spatial extent of 300 km x 300 km and 1000 m in elevation. Study sites were established in four local land-use types: forests, grasslands, arable sites, and settlements, embedded in near-natural, agricultural, or urban landscapes. Our results show that abundance and species density of dung-visiting beetles were negatively affected by agricultural land use at both spatial scales, whereas gamma-diversity at the local scale was negatively affected by settlements and on a landscape scale equally by agricultural and urban land use. Increasing precipitation diminished dung-visiting beetle abundance, and higher temperatures reduced community specialization on dung types and gamma-diversity. These results indicate that intensive land use and high temperatures may cause a loss in dung-visiting beetle diversity and alter community networks. A decrease in dung-visiting beetle diversity may disturb decomposition processes at both local and landscape scales and alter ecosystem functioning, which may lead to drastic ecological and economic damage.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10613 - Zoology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Ecology and Evolution [online]
ISSN
2045-7758
e-ISSN
2045-7758
Volume of the periodical
12
Issue of the periodical within the volume
10
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
e9386
UT code for WoS article
000865096300001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85141215884