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Ground-dwelling arthropods as biodiversity indicators in maize agroecosystems of Northern Italy

Ecological Indicators, 2023
Reliable monitoring of arthropod diversity in a given agroecosystem is essential for the conservation of the related ecosystem services, such as biological control.
Francesco Lami, Giovanni Burgio, Serena Magagnoli, Daniele Sommaggio, Roland Horváth, Dávid D. Nagy, Antonio Masetti   +6 more
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Local and Landscape Effects on Carrion-Associated Rove Beetle (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) Communities in German Forests

Insects, 2020
Intensification of anthropogenic land use is a major threat to biodiversity and thus to essential ecosystem services provided by insects. Rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), which react sensitively to habitat changes, are species-rich colonizers of
Sandra Weithmann, Jonas Kuppler, Gregor Degasperi, Sandra Steiger, Manfred Ayasse, Christian von Hoermann   +5 more
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Functional diversity and habitat preferences of native grassland plants and ground‐dwelling invertebrates in private gardens along an urbanization gradient

Ecology and Evolution, 2021
Urbanization is occurring around the globe, changing environmental conditions and influencing biodiversity and ecosystem functions. Urban domestic gardens represent a small‐grained mosaic of diverse habitats for numerous species.
Brigitte Braschler, José D. Gilgado, Hans‐Peter Rusterholz, Sascha Buchholz, Valerie Zwahlen, Bruno Baur   +5 more
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Identification of (+)-7R-Actinidine and its Biosynthetic Pathway in Rove beetles, Cafius spp. (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

, 2023
Actinidine, a terpene alkaloid, is commonly found in various plants and insects. However, in recent years, it has been suggested that the presence of actinidine in these organisms may be due to artifacts resulting from heating during sample preparation ...
Naoki, Mori, Yu, Takatani, Yuto, Ohata, Takato, Inoue   +3 more
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Limited congruence in phylogeographic patterns observed for riverine predacious beetles sharing distribution along the mountain rivers

Scientific Reports, 2023
Riverine predacious beetles (RPB) (Carabidae, Staphylinidae) are highly diverse and numerous elements of riverine ecosystems. Their historical and contemporary distribution and diversity are highly dependent on natural flow regimes and topography of ...
Łukasz Kajtoch, Michał Kolasa, Miłosz A. Mazur, Radosław Ścibior, Krzysztof Zając, Daniel Kubisz   +5 more
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Body size, richness, and abundance of Staphylinidae unaffected by landscape composition and cropping system in a push–pull maize system in Kenya

CABI Agriculture and Bioscience, 2022
The change from predominantly natural to agricultural landscapes has been shown to reduce pollination and biological control services and also affect the functional traits of the insects that provide such services.
Nina Garcia Devine, Tim Luttermoser, Katja Poveda   +2 more
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The structure and diversity of microbial communities in Paederus fuscipes (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae): from ecological paradigm to pathobiome

Microbiome, 2023
Background Paederus fuscipes is medically the most famous rove beetle, which causes dermatitis or conjunctivitis in humans, as well as gastrointestinal toxicosis in livestock, via releasing toxic hemolymph containing pederin.
Bahar Chamankar, Naseh Maleki-Ravasan, Mohsen Karami, Esmaeil Forouzan, Fateh Karimian, Sabah Naeimi, Nayyereh Choobdar   +6 more
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Cross-taxon congruence between predatory arthropods and plants across Mediterranean agricultural landscapes

Ecological Indicators, 2021
Although arthropods are among the most diverse, abundant and ecologically important animals in terrestrial ecosystems, they are generally neglected in most biodiversity inventories due to their complex systematics and overwhelming diversity, coupled with
Daria Corcos, Francesco Lami, Davide Nardi, Francesco Boscutti, Maurizia Sigura, Filippo Giannone, Paolo Pantini, Andrea Tagliapietra, Francesco Busato, Rossella Sibella, Lorenzo Marini   +10 more
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Rove beetles respond heterogeneously to urbanization [PDF]

Journal of Insect Conservation, 2013
Effects of urbanization on rove beetles were studied along a rural-suburban-urban forested gradient characterized by increasing human disturbance in and around Debrecen city (Hungary). Three classical and six novel hypotheses regarding the response of species to urbanization were tested.
Tibor Magura, Dávid Nagy, Béla Tóthmérész   +2 more
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Six groups of ground-dwelling arthropods show different diversity responses along elevational gradients in the Swiss Alps

PLoS ONE, 2022
Elevational gradients along mountain slopes offer opportunities to study key factors shaping species diversity patterns. Several environmental factors change over short distances along the elevational gradient in predictable ways. However, different taxa
José D. Gilgado, Hans-Peter Rusterholz, Brigitte Braschler, Stephan Zimmermann, Yannick Chittaro, Bruno Baur   +5 more
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