My home is your home: Nest boxes for birds and mammals provide habitats for diverse insect communities

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60460709:41320/22:94409

Result on the web

<a href="https://resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/icad.12558" target="_blank" >https://resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/icad.12558</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/icad.12558" target="_blank" >10.1111/icad.12558</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

My home is your home: Nest boxes for birds and mammals provide habitats for diverse insect communities

Original language description

Cavity-bearing trees are important nesting sites for many birds and mammals but have become rare due to anthropogenic modification of natural environments. Nest boxes are often used to compensate for the loss of these microhabitats. Nest boxes contain amounts of organic debris exploited by a variety of organisms, mainly insects. We studied the largely unexplored group of nest-dwelling insects by rearing them from plant detritus and animal remains accumulated in nest boxes of six bird and two mammal species, distributed in forest, farmland and urban environments in Poland. We recorded 119 species representing eight insect orders. Nest substrates composed of plant detritus and animal remains supported similar insect species richness but differed significantly in terms of the insect community composition. Nests of Falco tinnunculus and Tyto alba and also Parus spp. and Strix aluco had very similar insect communities. The structural compositions of insect communities were also similar in nests of Parus spp. and Sturnus vulgaris, and of F. tinnunculus and S. aluco. Flies and earwigs were associated with nests of Parus spp. and Sciurus vulgaris and were more abundant in forests and urban environments, whereas wasps preferred S. aluco nests in forests. Our study shows that nest boxes may serve as replacement habitats for a variety of nest-associated insects. Therefore, we suggest a more flexible approach to nest boxes maintenance and management, for example, less frequent cleaning or providing more than one nest box in a given place to enhance conservation of nest-associated insects.

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

10618 - Ecology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Insect Conservation and Diversity

ISSN

1752-458X

e-ISSN

1752-4598

Volume of the periodical

15

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

461-469

UT code for WoS article

000731301900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85121424526