Can immature stages be ignored in studies of forest leaf litter arthropod diversity? A test using Oxford Nanopore DNA barcoding

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/icad.12702" target="_blank" >https://resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/icad.12702</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/icad.12702" target="_blank" >10.1111/icad.12702</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Can immature stages be ignored in studies of forest leaf litter arthropod diversity? A test using Oxford Nanopore DNA barcoding

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Forest soil and leaf litter support diverse arthropod mesofauna for which diversity dynamics is challenging to study due to the high number of species and specimens, small body size and limited taxonomic knowledge. Immature stages (larvae) are even harder to identify than adults, as their morphology is largely unknown. Therefore, larvae are often ignored, even though they may form a substantial proportion of specimens collected, are less mobile than adults and their exclusion may provide an incomplete diversity profile. Here, we use Oxford Nanopore DNA barcoding to investigate whether the inclusion of larvae provides a more complete taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity profiles in leaf litter beetles (Coleoptera) from a subtropical forest in Taiwan.Our results indicate that larvae represent up to 38% of beetle specimens per sample, but most of them belong to 2-3 common species. Larvae of most beetle species are rarely collected repeatedly or in multiple specimens, possibly due to special habitat requirements or high seasonality. Taxonomic, phylogenetic and incidence-based functional diversity measures were not affected by the exclusion of larvae in the Staphylinidae dataset but were strongly biased in all-beetle dataset, especially when only common or abundant species were considered. Taxonomic beta diversity was not affected by the omission of larvae. Our results indicate that immature stages may be omitted in ecological studies of arthropods in case both adults and larvae co-occur in the same habitat, and the sites are sampled repeatedly. Caution is needed (1) in groups in which larvae and adults do not inhabit the same environment or strongly differ in biology, (2) when rare species are omitted or (3) when functional diversity is calculated from abundance data.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Can immature stages be ignored in studies of forest leaf litter arthropod diversity? A test using Oxford Nanopore DNA barcoding

Popis výsledku anglicky

Forest soil and leaf litter support diverse arthropod mesofauna for which diversity dynamics is challenging to study due to the high number of species and specimens, small body size and limited taxonomic knowledge. Immature stages (larvae) are even harder to identify than adults, as their morphology is largely unknown. Therefore, larvae are often ignored, even though they may form a substantial proportion of specimens collected, are less mobile than adults and their exclusion may provide an incomplete diversity profile. Here, we use Oxford Nanopore DNA barcoding to investigate whether the inclusion of larvae provides a more complete taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity profiles in leaf litter beetles (Coleoptera) from a subtropical forest in Taiwan.Our results indicate that larvae represent up to 38% of beetle specimens per sample, but most of them belong to 2-3 common species. Larvae of most beetle species are rarely collected repeatedly or in multiple specimens, possibly due to special habitat requirements or high seasonality. Taxonomic, phylogenetic and incidence-based functional diversity measures were not affected by the exclusion of larvae in the Staphylinidae dataset but were strongly biased in all-beetle dataset, especially when only common or abundant species were considered. Taxonomic beta diversity was not affected by the omission of larvae. Our results indicate that immature stages may be omitted in ecological studies of arthropods in case both adults and larvae co-occur in the same habitat, and the sites are sampled repeatedly. Caution is needed (1) in groups in which larvae and adults do not inhabit the same environment or strongly differ in biology, (2) when rare species are omitted or (3) when functional diversity is calculated from abundance data.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10616 - Entomology

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Insect Conservation and Diversity

ISSN

1752-458X

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

17

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

20

Strana od-do

31-50

Kód UT WoS článku

999

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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