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

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62690094%3A18470%2F22%3A50019362" target="_blank" >RIV/62690094:18470/22:50019362 - isvavai.cz</a>

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/60460709:41320/22:94409

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

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J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

10618 - Ecology

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2022

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

1752-4598

Svazek periodika

15

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

4

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

9

Strana od-do

461-469

Kód UT WoS článku

000731301900001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85121424526