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Influence of forest riparian vegetation on abundance and biomass of nocturnal flying insects

Ober, Holly K. ; Hayes, John P.

Forest ecology and management, 2008-08, Vol.256 (5), p.1124-1132 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Amsterdam: Elsevier B.V

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    Influence of forest riparian vegetation on abundance and biomass of nocturnal flying insects
  • Autor: Ober, Holly K. ; Hayes, John P.
  • Assuntos: Animal and plant ecology ; Animal, plant and microbial ecology ; Biological and medical sciences ; conifers ; deciduous trees ; forest insects ; Forest management ; forest trees ; Forestry ; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology ; habitat preferences ; insect communities ; Insects ; overstory ; Pacific Northwest ; predator-prey relationships ; Riparian ; riparian forests ; shrubs ; species diversity ; Synecology ; Terrestrial ecosystems ; understory ; Vegetation composition ; vegetation cover ; vegetation structure
  • É parte de: Forest ecology and management, 2008-08, Vol.256 (5), p.1124-1132
  • Notas: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2008.06.010
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  • Descrição: Despite widespread recognition of linkages between vegetation and insects, understanding of the ecological mechanisms underlying these relationships is limited. Better comprehension of relationships linking abundance and biomass of insects to vegetation would increase accuracy of predictions of the effects of forest management activities on insect communities. This knowledge could also be pivotal to understanding predator–prey dynamics linked to insect populations. We sampled nocturnal flying insects and measured vegetation characteristics in 34 stream reaches in conifer-dominated forests of the Oregon Coast Range in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. We considered five a priori hypotheses (resource quality, resource diversity, resource abundance, resource concentration, and stream cover hypotheses) that could explain mechanisms underlying associations between riparian vegetation and nocturnal flying insects, and used an information-theoretic approach to determine the relative strength of evidence for each. The resource quality hypothesis, which predicts that abundance and biomass of insects increases with cover of deciduous vegetation, explained substantial variation for nearly every order of insect investigated, whereas the remaining hypotheses explained relatively little. Abundance and biomass of insects had stronger associations with characteristics of canopy trees than with characteristics of shrub or understory trees, suggesting that deciduous trees are an important habitat element for nocturnal flying insects in these areas. Resource managers planning riparian vegetation management in conifer-dominated forests should be aware that manipulation of the cover of deciduous trees in riparian areas could have a large impact on these insects and their vertebrate predators. By providing information on forest canopy composition, remote sensing may offer a low-cost tool for identifying areas with high abundance and biomass of insects during conservation planning.
  • Editor: Amsterdam: Elsevier B.V
  • Idioma: Inglês
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