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Can rove beetles (Staphylinidae) be excluded in studies focusing on saproxylic beetles in central European beech forests?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2014

G. Parmain ,
C. Bouget ,
J. Müller ,
J. Horak ,
M.M. Gossner ,
T. Lachat  and
G. Isacsson
G. Parmain*
Affiliation:
National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture. (IRSTEA), ‘Forest ecosystems’ Research Unit, Domaine des Barres, F-45290 Nogent-sur-Vernisson, France National Laboratory of Forest Entomology, National Forest Office (ONF), F-11500 Quillan, France National Museum of Natural History, Natural Patrimony Department, 36 rue Geoffroy St Hilaire, CP 41 75 231 Paris cedex 05, France
C. Bouget
Affiliation:
National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture. (IRSTEA), ‘Forest ecosystems’ Research Unit, Domaine des Barres, F-45290 Nogent-sur-Vernisson, France
J. Müller
Affiliation:
Nationalparkverwaltung Bayerischer Wald Stellvertretender Leiter Sachgebietsleiter Naturschutz und ForschungFreyunger Str. 2, 94481 Grafenau, Germany
J. Horak
Affiliation:
Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamycka 1176, CZ-165 21 Prague, Czech Republic
M.M. Gossner
Affiliation:
Terrestrial Ecology Research Group, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Center for Food and Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2, 85354 Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany
T. Lachat
Affiliation:
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Zürcherstrasse 111, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
G. Isacsson
Affiliation:
Swedish Forest Agency, P.O. Box 63, SE-281 21 Hässleholm, Sweden
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*Author for correspondence Phone: 00.33.2.38.95.66.78 Fax: 00.33.2.38.95.03.59 E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Monitoring saproxylic beetle diversity, though challenging, can help identifying relevant conservation sites or key drivers of forest biodiversity, and assessing the impact of forestry practices on biodiversity. Unfortunately, monitoring species assemblages is costly, mainly due to the time spent on identification. Excluding families which are rich in specimens and species but are difficult to identify is a frequent procedure used in ecological entomology to reduce the identification cost. The Staphylinidae (rove beetle) family is both one of the most frequently excluded and one of the most species-rich saproxylic beetle families. Using a large-scale beetle and environmental dataset from 238 beech stands across Europe, we evaluated the effects of staphylinid exclusion on results in ecological forest studies. Simplified staphylinid-excluded assemblages were found to be relevant surrogates for whole assemblages. The species richness and composition of saproxylic beetle assemblages both with and without staphylinids responded congruently to landscape, climatic and stand gradients, even when the assemblages included a high proportion of staphylinid species. At both local and regional scales, the species richness as well as the species composition of staphylinid-included and staphylinid-excluded assemblages were highly positively correlated. Ranking of sites according to their biodiversity level, which either included or excluded Staphylinidae in species richness, also gave congruent results. From our results, species assemblages omitting staphylinids can be taken as efficient surrogates for complete assemblages in large scale biodiversity monitoring studies.

Keywords

biodiversity surrogateinsect samplingbiodiversity monitoringidentification cost
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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 105 , Issue 1 , February 2015 , pp. 101 - 109
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