Vast alluvial meadows fail to provide habitats to host ants of the butterfly Phengaris nausithous along upper Oder river

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Výsledek na webu

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Vast alluvial meadows fail to provide habitats to host ants of the butterfly Phengaris nausithous along upper Oder river

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Temperate mesic to damp grasslands were long viewed as seminatural habitats, established after forest clearance by humans and since then maintained by agricultural techniques. An issue unanswered under this view is the origin of diverse and specialised grassland biota, including European large blues of the genus Phengaris (Lycaenidae). These butterflies have been much studied owing to their myrmecophilous relationships with Myrmica ants, narrow habitat specificity, and threatened status. Phengaris nausithous, the most common Phengaris in Central Europe, inhabits damp to mesic meadows with representation of the initial larval host plant, Sanguisorba officinalis, and the ants Myrmica rubra (the most frequent host), M. scabrinodis and M. ruginodis. It displays close association with edges or small meadow patches, avoiding spacious uniformly managed units. Based on extensive ants trapping at the Oder river alluvial meadows, the Czech Republic, we demonstrate that the Myrmica host ants are absent from interiors of large and uniformly mown meadows, probably being outcompeted by numerically and ecologically dominant Lasius niger ant. The preferences of P. nausithous for edges is likely mediated by adult movement behaviour and had presumably evolved in mosaic landscapes with alternating wooded and grassland structures, arguably a common land cover in pre-Homo sapiens Europe.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Vast alluvial meadows fail to provide habitats to host ants of the butterfly Phengaris nausithous along upper Oder river

Popis výsledku anglicky

Temperate mesic to damp grasslands were long viewed as seminatural habitats, established after forest clearance by humans and since then maintained by agricultural techniques. An issue unanswered under this view is the origin of diverse and specialised grassland biota, including European large blues of the genus Phengaris (Lycaenidae). These butterflies have been much studied owing to their myrmecophilous relationships with Myrmica ants, narrow habitat specificity, and threatened status. Phengaris nausithous, the most common Phengaris in Central Europe, inhabits damp to mesic meadows with representation of the initial larval host plant, Sanguisorba officinalis, and the ants Myrmica rubra (the most frequent host), M. scabrinodis and M. ruginodis. It displays close association with edges or small meadow patches, avoiding spacious uniformly managed units. Based on extensive ants trapping at the Oder river alluvial meadows, the Czech Republic, we demonstrate that the Myrmica host ants are absent from interiors of large and uniformly mown meadows, probably being outcompeted by numerically and ecologically dominant Lasius niger ant. The preferences of P. nausithous for edges is likely mediated by adult movement behaviour and had presumably evolved in mosaic landscapes with alternating wooded and grassland structures, arguably a common land cover in pre-Homo sapiens Europe.

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J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10618 - Ecology

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Journal of Insect Conservation

ISSN

1366-638X

e-ISSN

1572-9753

Svazek periodika

2026

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

30

Stát vydavatele periodika

CH - Švýcarská konfederace

Počet stran výsledku

11

Strana od-do

19

Kód UT WoS článku

001697357800001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105030958319