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Beetles (Coleoptera) in deciduous dead wood tree species trunks in Lithuania

We present a list of beetles that emerged from wind-felled tree trunks of several tree species, including European ash (Fraxinusexcelsior), aspen (Populustremula), common oak (Quercusrobur), birch (Betula sp.), small-leaved linden (Tiliacordata) and black alder (Alnusglutinosa). Four hundred and nin...

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Autores principales: Lekoveckaitė, Aistė, Podėnienė, Virginija, Ferenca, Romas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10336560/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37448690
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e106132
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author Lekoveckaitė, Aistė
Podėnienė, Virginija
Ferenca, Romas
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description We present a list of beetles that emerged from wind-felled tree trunks of several tree species, including European ash (Fraxinusexcelsior), aspen (Populustremula), common oak (Quercusrobur), birch (Betula sp.), small-leaved linden (Tiliacordata) and black alder (Alnusglutinosa). Four hundred and ninety species and 60 families of beetles were collected using trunk-emergence type traps. We found 440 beetle species that had previously been recorded from dead wood; the remaining 50 were newly discovered and all were considered as not directly associated with dead wood. Common oak trunks had the highest diversity of beetles, with approximately 42% of the identified beetle species found in our research. Of all the beetle species identified in the study, about half are saproxylic, while the remaining are considered as not having direct association with dead wood. The results of the study emphasise the importance of dead wood in maintaining beetle diversity in Lithuanian forests. This study provides a valuable baseline for future research on beetles in dead wood in Lithuania and may help to provide information for conservation efforts to protect these important habitats.
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spelling pubmed-103365602023-07-13 Beetles (Coleoptera) in deciduous dead wood tree species trunks in Lithuania Lekoveckaitė, Aistė Podėnienė, Virginija Ferenca, Romas Biodivers Data J Research Article We present a list of beetles that emerged from wind-felled tree trunks of several tree species, including European ash (Fraxinusexcelsior), aspen (Populustremula), common oak (Quercusrobur), birch (Betula sp.), small-leaved linden (Tiliacordata) and black alder (Alnusglutinosa). Four hundred and ninety species and 60 families of beetles were collected using trunk-emergence type traps. We found 440 beetle species that had previously been recorded from dead wood; the remaining 50 were newly discovered and all were considered as not directly associated with dead wood. Common oak trunks had the highest diversity of beetles, with approximately 42% of the identified beetle species found in our research. Of all the beetle species identified in the study, about half are saproxylic, while the remaining are considered as not having direct association with dead wood. The results of the study emphasise the importance of dead wood in maintaining beetle diversity in Lithuanian forests. This study provides a valuable baseline for future research on beetles in dead wood in Lithuania and may help to provide information for conservation efforts to protect these important habitats. Pensoft Publishers 2023-07-04 /pmc/articles/PMC10336560/ /pubmed/37448690 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e106132 Text en Aistė Lekoveckaitė, Virginija Podėnienė, Romas Ferenca https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Lekoveckaitė, Aistė
Podėnienė, Virginija
Ferenca, Romas
Beetles (Coleoptera) in deciduous dead wood tree species trunks in Lithuania
title Beetles (Coleoptera) in deciduous dead wood tree species trunks in Lithuania
title_full Beetles (Coleoptera) in deciduous dead wood tree species trunks in Lithuania
title_fullStr Beetles (Coleoptera) in deciduous dead wood tree species trunks in Lithuania
title_full_unstemmed Beetles (Coleoptera) in deciduous dead wood tree species trunks in Lithuania
title_short Beetles (Coleoptera) in deciduous dead wood tree species trunks in Lithuania
title_sort beetles (coleoptera) in deciduous dead wood tree species trunks in lithuania
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10336560/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37448690
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e106132
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