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DOI	10.3390/insects11110809
	Water Is Needed to Exist: Habitat Preferences of Tiger Beetles (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) in a Desert Country
	Jaskula, Radomir; Plociennik, Mateusz
通讯作者	Jaskula, R
来源期刊	INSECTS
EISSN	2075-4450
出版年	2020
卷号	11 期号:11
英文摘要	Simple Summary: Many species of tiger beetles are habitat specialists, which make them useful as bioindicators of the status and changes in the quality of the environment. Their diversity and community structure in particular habitats can point to the stability of habitat. We studied six different macro and microhabitat factors that influence the habitat preferences of four Cicindelidae species occurring in different Tunisian desert areas. This is the one of only a few such studies in Africa. The results clearly show high habitat : specialization of most studied taxa, as well as importance of water reservoirs in species distribution in the Sahara Desert. Tiger beetles are a group of predatory insects occurring mainly in diverse sandy areas, with particular species often characterised by narrow habitat preferences, which makes them both very important bioindicators for determining patterns of biodiversity and a flagship group for nature conservation. However, the precise roles of particular habitat parameters in the distribution of these beetles in desert areas are almost unknown. Habitat preferences for four tiger beetles species were analysed in Tunisia. Fifty samples from a major part of the country were collected, for which climate data, macrohabitat types. and soil parameters (soil humidity, salinity, pH, and structure) were studied. Here we show that most studied Cicindelidae were characterised by unique habitat preferences and did not co-occur with other ones, including two taxa found as habitat specialists, occurring in only one type of macrohabitat. Two other species were noted as more eurythopic and occupied 2-3 macrohabitat types, with Lophyra flexuosa as the most ubiquitous species not related to the measured parameters. The presence of a source of water (understood as a part of the habitat type, such as river banks and oases, or high soil humidity) was found as the most important factor in the distribution of the studied tiger beetle species. The present study is the first one focused on habitat preferences and habitat specialization of Cicindelidae fauna of Maghreb, and one of only a few in Africa.
英文关键词	Coleoptera Cicindelidae Africa Maghreb Tunisia habitat preferences habitat specialization
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Green Published, gold
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000593287100001
WOS关键词	MICROHABITAT SEGREGATION ; RICHNESS PATTERNS ; FAUNA COLEOPTERA ; CONSERVATION ; CARABIDAE ; BEHAVIOR ; LARVAL ; BIODIVERSITY ; PHENOLOGY ; BIOLOGY
WOS类目	Entomology
WOS研究方向	Entomology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/327699
作者单位	[Jaskula, Radomir; Plociennik, Mateusz] Univ Lodz, Fac Biol & Environm Protect, Dept Invertebrate Zool & Hydrobiol, 12-16 Banacha, PL-90237 Lodz, Poland
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Jaskula, Radomir,Plociennik, Mateusz. Water Is Needed to Exist: Habitat Preferences of Tiger Beetles (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) in a Desert Country[J],2020,11(11).
APA	Jaskula, Radomir,&Plociennik, Mateusz.(2020).Water Is Needed to Exist: Habitat Preferences of Tiger Beetles (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) in a Desert Country.INSECTS,11(11).
MLA	Jaskula, Radomir,et al."Water Is Needed to Exist: Habitat Preferences of Tiger Beetles (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) in a Desert Country".INSECTS 11.11(2020).