Experimental confirmation of empty snail shells as limiting resources for specialized bees and wasps

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11120/20:43919131

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925857419303647?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925857419303647?via%3Dihub</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2019.105640" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.ecoleng.2019.105640</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Experimental confirmation of empty snail shells as limiting resources for specialized bees and wasps

Original language description

Observational studies have suggested that the presence of snail shells correlates with the presence of specialized adopters, particularly bees and wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata). However, should the empty shells be considered limiting resources once they are present in the respective habitat even if observational studies suggested low ratio of occupied relative to total shells? We performed a manipulative experiment, which consisted of the addition of marked snail shells of six terrestrial species that dominate the open and semi-open central European habitats to 21 sites with naturally present shells. We deployed the shells for the spring and summer 2017, allowed their inhabitants to undergo a diapause during the follow-up winter period and complete metamorphosis. The specialized bee and wasp species abundantly occupied the provided shells and the occupancy rates were several times higher in experimentally provided shells compared to the naturally present shells. These differences in occupancy rates were higher at anthropogenic compared to natural sites and at sites with more limited availability of naturally present shells. In contrast, the few sites at which the examined resource was superabundant, both the naturally present and the experimentally provided shells were occupied only to a limited extent. The species composition of assemblages that occupied the experimentally provided and naturally present shells were similar, and the differences in species composition between the natural and anthropogenic sites resembled those exhibited in the naturally present shells. In conclusion, we experimentally confirmed that empty snail shells serve as limiting resources for specialized bees and wasps even at sites where the naturally present shells are perceived as abundant.

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

10613 - Zoology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Ecological engineering

ISSN

0925-8574

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

142

Issue of the periodical within the volume

JANUARY

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

"Article Number: UNSP 105640"

UT code for WoS article

000497646800013

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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