Pub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-11-20DOI: 10.1007/s10841-024-00638-4
Rachel Jones, Robert Wilson, Ilya Maclean, Nigel Bourn
Evidence-based management is needed to reverse declines in insect abundance. The Lulworth Skipper Thymelicus acteon is a range-restricted and declining species in the UK and northern Europe associated with mid-successional grassland, which presents management challenges because interventions are necessary to prevent long-term habitat deterioration but can result in short-term reductions in quality. In addition, site management should be compatible for the focal species and for wider plant and insect diversity. We conducted factorial experimental management trials to understand effects of cutting and rotovation on the height and structure of vegetation containing the larval host plant Tor-grass Brachypodium rupestre. We monitored vegetation height, B. rupestre cover and plant diversity, and T. acteon larval presence over four years. Rotovation and cutting differed in their effects on habitat structure and larval occupancy relative to controls. Vegetation height and host plant cover, the most important components of habitat quality for T. acteon, were faster to recover to suitable levels on cut plots. However, larval occupancy increased more quickly on rotovated plots, where plant species diversity was also higher. Results suggest that due to initial negative impacts of interventions on T. acteon occupancy, low frequency or low-intensity management, such as managing sections of a site every three years, is advisable. Our results show that rotovation or cutting the sward can be suitable for mid-successional grassland species such as Lulworth Skipper on sites where grazing might be problematic. Rotational grazing or rotovation can maintain suitable conditions for habitat specialist insects requiring a range of different grassland conditions, serving wider conservation goals.
Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10841-024-00638-4.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-28DOI: 10.1007/s10841-023-00542-3
Soňa Nuhlíčková, Ján Svetlík, P. Kaňuch, Anton Krištín, B. Jarčuška
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Pub Date : 2023-12-21DOI: 10.1007/s10841-023-00537-0
T. Termaat, Robert Ketelaar, Hein H. van Kleef, W. Verberk, R. V. van Grunsven, M. WallisDeVries
{"title":"Spearhead blues: How threats to the damselfly Coenagrion hastulatum changed over time","authors":"T. Termaat, Robert Ketelaar, Hein H. van Kleef, W. Verberk, R. V. van Grunsven, M. WallisDeVries","doi":"10.1007/s10841-023-00537-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-023-00537-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16240,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Insect Conservation","volume":"68 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138953073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-20DOI: 10.1007/s10841-023-00535-2
John A. Shuey, Jan Meerman, Paul Labus, Peter Kovarik, Ryan Shuey
{"title":"Butterfly community structure in belize: species richness patterns reveal the role of climate gradients in shaping butterfly community structure and strategies for long-term conservation","authors":"John A. Shuey, Jan Meerman, Paul Labus, Peter Kovarik, Ryan Shuey","doi":"10.1007/s10841-023-00535-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-023-00535-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16240,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Insect Conservation","volume":"34 25","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138955779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-16DOI: 10.1007/s10841-023-00544-1
Dhâmyla Bruna de Souza Dutra, Rodrigo Machado Feitosa, T. Jory, Francisco Matheus da Silva Sales, L. Fontenele, Marília Maria Silva da Costa, F. A. Schmidt
{"title":"Ant habitat-use guilds response to forest-pasture shifting in the southwestern Amazon","authors":"Dhâmyla Bruna de Souza Dutra, Rodrigo Machado Feitosa, T. Jory, Francisco Matheus da Silva Sales, L. Fontenele, Marília Maria Silva da Costa, F. A. Schmidt","doi":"10.1007/s10841-023-00544-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-023-00544-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16240,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Insect Conservation","volume":"10 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138967036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-15DOI: 10.1007/s10841-023-00540-5
André‐Philippe Drapeau Picard, Alessandro Dieni, Agathe Moreau, Greg W. Mitchell, Marian L. MacNair, Nicolas Casajus, Sonya Charest, Maxim Larrivée
{"title":"Mission Monarch: engaging the Canadian public for the conservation of a species at risk","authors":"André‐Philippe Drapeau Picard, Alessandro Dieni, Agathe Moreau, Greg W. Mitchell, Marian L. MacNair, Nicolas Casajus, Sonya Charest, Maxim Larrivée","doi":"10.1007/s10841-023-00540-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-023-00540-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16240,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Insect Conservation","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138998338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-10DOI: 10.1007/s10841-023-00543-2
J. Brito, Everton Cruz Silva, Victor Rennan Santos Ferreira, R. C. Bastos, G. M. Cruz, J. S. Monteles, Adriana Lima, Marcelo Raseira, G. Brejão, José Max Barbosa Oliveira-Junior, Karina Dias‐Silva, T. Michelan, Lilian Casatti, Leandro Juen
{"title":"The importance of national parks in maintaining the habitat integrity and diversity of Odonata species in Amazonian streams","authors":"J. Brito, Everton Cruz Silva, Victor Rennan Santos Ferreira, R. C. Bastos, G. M. Cruz, J. S. Monteles, Adriana Lima, Marcelo Raseira, G. Brejão, José Max Barbosa Oliveira-Junior, Karina Dias‐Silva, T. Michelan, Lilian Casatti, Leandro Juen","doi":"10.1007/s10841-023-00543-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-023-00543-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16240,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Insect Conservation","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138585324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-08DOI: 10.1007/s10841-023-00539-y
Mayumi Yoshimura
{"title":"Potential impacts of changing vegetation on benthic invertebrate assemblages in Odaigahara, Japan","authors":"Mayumi Yoshimura","doi":"10.1007/s10841-023-00539-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-023-00539-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16240,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Insect Conservation","volume":"28 26","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138589239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-08DOI: 10.1007/s10841-023-00532-5
Hidenori Deto, Tadashi Miyashita
{"title":"Estimating appropriate mowing timing for the population of an endangered butterfly inhabiting grassland patches in an agricultural landscape","authors":"Hidenori Deto, Tadashi Miyashita","doi":"10.1007/s10841-023-00532-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-023-00532-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16240,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Insect Conservation","volume":"32 22","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138588935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-07DOI: 10.1007/s10841-023-00541-4
Mats Niklasson, Emil Svensson, Sonja Leidenberger, Niclas Norrström, Elizabeth Crawford
{"title":"Free-living colonies of native honey bees (Apis mellifera mellifera) in 19th and early 20th century Sweden","authors":"Mats Niklasson, Emil Svensson, Sonja Leidenberger, Niclas Norrström, Elizabeth Crawford","doi":"10.1007/s10841-023-00541-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-023-00541-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16240,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Insect Conservation","volume":"45 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138591081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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