Cavity-breeding birds create specific microhabitats for diverse arthropod communities in boreal forests

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F23%3A10480158" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/23:10480158 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=xYrgoOeEWE" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=xYrgoOeEWE</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10531-023-02653-4" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10531-023-02653-4</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Cavity-breeding birds create specific microhabitats for diverse arthropod communities in boreal forests

Original language description

The nests of secondary cavity-nesters located in tree cavities may form specific microhabitats of conservation importance due to their limited accessibility and availability. Species-specific nesting materials in nests of different secondary cavity-nesters may furthermore provide very different microhabitats for arthropods. The potential differences in arthropod communities inhabiting nests of different bird species in excavated cavities or nest boxes have, however, rarely been studied despite their relevance for conservation. Here we investigated the diversity and composition of arthropod communities in these different cavity types and bird species&apos; nests in managed boreal forests. We identified morphologically and by DNA-metabarcoding arthropods in nest materials that were collected in and compared between (i) woodpecker-size cavities from seven different combinations of cavity type (nest box or excavated cavity), tree species (aspen or pine) and accumulation history of nest materials (single-season cleaned or uncleaned nest boxes that accumulated nests of passerines or an owl species); and (ii) nests of two different passerine species in small nest boxes. We identified 64 arthropod taxa in ten orders, from which Diptera, Coleoptera, Siphonaptera, and Lepidoptera were the most abundant. Shannon diversity index was similar among the cavity-nest-type combinations, but taxa richness was the highest in the owl nests. The arthropod communities (especially Histeridae beetles) deviated most from the other types of nests in owl and aspen cavity nests with more advanced decomposition of nest material (soil or wet environment related taxa). The differences in arthropod communities between the different nest types point out the importance of the ecological chain &quot;tree cavities-bird nests-arthropod communities&quot;.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project

<a href="/en/project/EF19_074%2F0016231" target="_blank" >EF19_074/0016231: International mobility of researchers at Charles University (MSCA-IF III)</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Biodiversity and Conservation

ISSN

0960-3115

e-ISSN

1572-9710

Volume of the periodical

32

Issue of the periodical within the volume

12

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

30

Pages from-to

3845-3874

UT code for WoS article

001023978600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85164192130