All

What are you looking for?

All
Projects
Results
Organizations

Quick search

  • Projects supported by TA ČR
  • Excellent projects
  • Projects with the highest public support
  • Current projects

Smart search

  • That is how I find a specific +word
  • That is how I leave the -word out of the results
  • “That is how I can find the whole phrase”

Understanding the drivers of beta-diversity improves conservation prioritization for Central European dung beetles

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12310%2F22%3A43904862" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12310/22:43904862 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000632072200235X?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000632072200235X?via%3Dihub</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109682" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109682</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Understanding the drivers of beta-diversity improves conservation prioritization for Central European dung beetles

  • Original language description

    The conversion and degradation of natural habitats has caused global declines in terrestrial insect diversity. Conserving insect diversity has therefore gained increasing attention in international conservation agendas. Dung beetles (Geotrupidae, Scarabaeidae) are diverse and abundant coprophagous insects who remove dung and enhance nutrient cycling. Today, half of Central European dung beetle species are threatened. While past research has concentrated on local (alpha-diversity) of dung beetles, the compositional differences between sites (beta-diversity) have been largely neglected. However, maximizing the overall outcome of conservation measures requires a detailed understanding of the factors determining compositional differences between sites. We separated beta-diversity of dung beetle communities, sampled across the Czech Republic, into independent components of spatial turnover and nestedness. We tested the relative importance of space, temperature, precipitation, elevation, season, grazing herbivore and antiparasitic treatment via multiple regressions for distance matrices to reveal which factors drive the beta-diversity of dung beetle communities. Our results show that beta-diversity of dung beetle communities is mostly driven by spatial distance, followed by similarly strong effects of season and mean temperature. Herbivore type and antiparasitic treatment had lesser influence than environment but can be influenced by conservation management. Nevertheless, antiparasitic treatment increased nestedness and resulted in an overall lower gamma-diversity. Based on the principle of complementarity, we recommend - in order of decreasing importance - giving (1) conservation priority to the most distant sites, under (2) the largest differences in mean annual temperature, ensure (3) year-round grazing by (4) multiple herbivore species, and (5) avoid using antiparasitics.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    10618 - Ecology

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

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

    Biological Conservation

  • ISSN

    0006-3207

  • e-ISSN

    1873-2917

  • Volume of the periodical

    273

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    SEP 2022

  • Country of publishing house

    GB - UNITED KINGDOM

  • Number of pages

    8

  • Pages from-to

    nestrankovano

  • UT code for WoS article

    000848351600007

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85136177641