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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"saproxylic"”.
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Do Saproxylic Curculionids Affect the Fitness of Co-occurring Cerambycids?
<p>Saproxylic insects sometimes coexist in incredibly high numbers under bark and share common resources. Thus, interactions between species are possible and could even explain their coexistence. This study investigates evidence of negative or positive effects of curculionid beetles (Coleoptera: …
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Connections between individual dispersal behavior and the multi-scale distribution of a saproxylic beetle
… of Odontotaenius disjunctus (Passalidae), a saproxylic (=decayed wood dependent) beetle common to eastern North American forests, at multiple spatial scales. In dispersal experiments, O. disjunctus movement was faster and more linear in suitable habitat than in unsuitable matrix (non-forest), …
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Are Weevils Picky Eaters? Community Structure and Host Specificity of Neotropical Saproxylic Beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
<p>Abstract Primary saproxylic beetles play a major role in forest nutrient cycling and making deadwood accessible to other decomposers. Understanding beetle host preferences and patterns of community assembly is critical for their conservation, and for predicting which species might become …
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Saproxylic Insights: Unveiling Gut Microbial Dynamics in Forest Floor Invertebrates and Their Frass in the Tallaganda Region, NSW
… diversity among forest floor invertebrate hosts: saproxylic velvet worms, saprophagous wood cockroaches, funnel web spiders, and their immediate environment, the frass. All individuals used in this study were found in the Tallaganda Region of New South Wales, Australia. This study utilized the …
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THE IMPACT OF FOREST SUCCESSIONAL STATUS ON COMMUNITY STRUCTURE OF NEOTROPICAL CERAMBYCID BEETLES
… status affects community composition of saproxylic cerambycids, which, as early colonists of moribund trees, have an important role in nutrient cycling. In the lowland rain forest of Costa Rica, thirty-nine trees in five plant families (Fabaceae, Lecythidaceae, Malvaceae, Moraceae, and …
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Ecological impact of entomopathogenic nematodes used to control the large pine weevil, Hylobius abietis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
… to a particular species (Chapter IV). The saproxylic beetle community in deadwood other than tree stumps on Irish clearfell sites appears to be dominated by the longhorn beetle Rhagium bifasciatum (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae; Fabricius 1775). Both S. carpocapsae and H. downesi invaded …