The impact of a small, alien invertebrate on a sub-Antarctic terrestrial ecosystem: Limnophyes minimus (Diptera, Chironomidae) at Marion Island

Polar Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 99-106

  Hanel C ^a   Chown, S L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LITTER; NUTRIENT CYCLING;

INDIAN OCEAN;

CHIRONOMIDAE; COTULA PLUMOSA; CRASSULA MOSCHATA; DIPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; LIMNOPHYES MINIMUS; PRINGLEOPHAGA MARIONI; TINEIDAE;

EID: 0031880666     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003000050282     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Adamson DA, Whetton P, Selkirk PM (1988) An analysis of air temperature records for Macquarie Island: Decadal warming, ENSO cooling and southern hemisphere circulation patterns. Pap Proc R Soc Tasmania 122:107-112
2. Allison IF, Keage, PL (1986) Recent changes in the glaciers of Heard Island. Polar Rec 23:255-271
3. Blake B (1996) Microclimate and prediction of photosynthesis at Marion Island. MSc Thesis, University of the Free State
4. Bloomer JP, Bester MN (1992) Control of feral cats on sub-Antarctic Marion Island, Indian Ocean. Biol Conserv 60:211-219
5. Bonner WN (1984) Introduced mammals. In: Laws RM (ed) Antarctic ecology, vol 1. Academic Press, London, pp 237-238
6. Chapuis JL, Boussès P, Barnard G (1994) Alien mammals, impact and management in the French subantarctic islands. Biol Conserv 67:97-104
7. Chevrier M (1996) Introduction de deux espèces d'insectes aux Îles Kerguelen: Processus de colonisation et exemples d'interactions. PhD Thesis, Université de Rennes 1
8. Chevrier M, Vernon P, Frenot Y (1997) Potential effects of two alien insects on a sub-Antarctic wingless fly in the Kerguelen islands. In: Battaglia B, Valencia J, Walton DWH (eds) Antarctic communities: species, structure and survival. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp 424-431
9. Chown SL (1989) Habitat use and diet as biogeographic indicators for subantarctic Ectemnorhinini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Antarct Sci 1:23-30
10. Chown SL, Avenant N (1992) Status of Plutella xylostella at Marion Island six years after its colonization. S Afr J Antarct Res 22:37-40
11. Chown SL, Crafford JE (1992) Microhabitat temperatures at Marion Island (46°54′S 37°45′E). S Afr J Antarct Res 22:51-58
12. Chown SL, Language K (1994) Newly established insects on sub-Antarctic Marion Island. Afr Entomol 2:57-60
13. Chown SL, Scholtz CH (1989) Biology and ecology of the Dusmoecetes Jeannel (Col. Curculionidae) species complex on Marion Island. Oecologia 80:93-99
14. Chown SL, Smith VR (1993) Climate change and the short-term impact of feral house mice at the sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Islands. Oecologia 96:508-516
15. Clark MR, Dingwall PR (1985) Conservation of islands in the Southern Ocean: a review of the protected areas of insulant-arctica. IUCN, Gland
16. Cooper J, Condy PR (1988) Environmental conservation at the sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Islands: a review and recommendations. Environ Conserv 15:317-326
17. Crafford JE (1986) A case study of an alien invertebrate (Limnophyes pusillus, Diptera, Chironomidae) introduced on Marion Island: selective advantages. S Afr J Antarct Res 16:115-117
18. Crafford JE (1990a) Patterns of energy flow in populations of the dominant insect consumers on Marion Island. PhD Thesis, University of Pretoria
19. Crafford JE (1990b) The role of feral house mice in ecosystem functioning on Marion Island. In: Kerry KR, Hempel G (eds) Antarctic ecosystems ecological change and conservation. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New york, pp 359-364
20. Crafford JE, Chown SL (1990) The introduction and establishment of the diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella L., Plutellidae) on Marion Island. In: Kerry KR, Hempel G (eds) Antarctic ecosystems ecological change and conservation. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York, pp 354-358
21. Crafford JE, Scholtz CH (1983) A preliminary investigation of the ecological importance of the dominant insects on Marion Island. Report to the South African Department of Transport (unpublished)
22. Crafford JE, Scholtz CH, Chown SL (1986) The insects of sub-Antarctic Marion and Prince Edward Islands; with a bibliography of entomology of the Kerguelen biogeographical province. S Afr J Antarct Res 16:42-84
23. Delettre YR (1978) Biologie et écologie de Limnophyes pusillus Eaton, 1875 (Diptera, Chironomidae) aux Iles Kerguelen. I. Présentation générale et étude des populations larvaires. Rev Ècol Biol Sol 15:475-486
24. Delettre YR, Cancela da Fonseca JP (1979) Biologie et écologie de Limnophyes pusillus Eaton, 1875 (Diptera, Chironomidae) aux Iles Keraguelen. II. Étude des populations imaginales et discussion. Rev Écol Biol Sol 16:355-372
25. Delettre YR, Tréhen P (1977) Introduction à la dynamique des populations de Limnophyes pusillus Eaton (Diptera, Chironomidae) dans les sols des îles australes antarctiques Francaises (Kerguelen). Ecol Bull Stockholm 25:80-89
26. Dinewall PR (1995) Progress in conservation of the subantarctic islands. IUCN, Gland
27. Eaton AE (1875) Short diagnoses of Diptera and Lepidoptera indigenous to kerguelen Island. Entomol Mon Mag 12:58-61
28. Ernsting G (1993) Observations on the life cycle and feeding ecology of two recently introduced predatory beetle species at South Georgia. Polar Biol 13:423-428
29. Ernsting G, Block W, MacAlister H, Todd C (1995) The invasion of the carnivorous carabid beetle Trechisibus antarcticus on South Georgia (sub-Antarctic) and its effect on the endemic herbivorous beetle Hydromedion sparsutum. Oecologia 103:34-42
30. Evenhuis NL (1989). Catalogue of Oceanic and Australasian Diptera. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu and Brill, Leiden
31. Frenot Y, Gloaguen J-C, Tréhen P (1997) Climate change in Kerguelen islands and colonization of recently deglaciated areas by Poa kerguelensis and P. annua. In: Battaglia B, Valencia J, Walton DWH (eds) Antarctic communities: species, structure and survival. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp 358-366
32. Gremmen NJM (1981) The vegetation of the subantarctic islands Marion and Prince Edward. Junk, The Hague
33. Gremmen NJM (1997) Changes in the vegetation of sub-Antarctic Marion Island resulting from introduced vascular plants. In: Battaglia B, Valencia J, Walton DWH (eds) Antarctic communities: species, structure and survival. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp 417-423
34. Gremmen NJM, Chown SL, Marshall DJ (in press) Impact of the introduced grass Agrostis stolonifera on vegetation and soil fauna communities at Marion Island, sub-Antarctic. Biol Conserv
35. Gressitt JL (1970) Subantarctic entomology and biogeography. Pac Insects Monogr 23:295-374
36. Kennedy AD (1995) Antarctic terrestrial ecosystem response to global environmental change. Annu Rev Ecol Syst 26:683-704
37. Klok CJ, Chown SL (1997) Critical thermal limits, temperature tolerance and water balance of a sub-antarctic caterpillar, Pringleophaga marioni (Lepidoptera: Tineidae). J Insect Physiol 43:685-694
38. Leader-Williams N (1988) Reindeer on South Georgia. The ecology of an introduced population. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
39. Lee KE (1985) Earthworms. Their ecology and relationships with soils and land use. Academic Press, Sydney
40. Lewis Smith RI (1984) Terrestrial plant biology of the sub-Antarctic and Antarctic. In: Laws RM (ed) Antarctic ecology. Academic Press, London, pp 61-162
41. Pugh PJA (1994) Non-indigenous Acari of Antarctica and the sub-Antarctic islands. Zool J Linn Soc 110:207-217
42. Reichle DE (1968) Relation of body size to food intake, oxygen consumption, and trace element metabolism in forest floor arthropods. Ecology 49:538-542
43. Schulze BR (1971) The climate of Marion Island. In: Van Zinderen Bakker EM, Winterbottom JM, Dyer RA (eds) Marion and Prince Edward Islands. Report on the South African Biological and Geological Expedition 1965-1966. Balkema, Cape Town, pp 16-31
44. Séguy E (1971) Diptera. In: Van Zinderen Bakker EM, Winterbottom JM, Dyer RA (eds) Marion and Prince Edward Islands. Report on the South African Biological and Geological Expedition 1965-1966. Balkema, Cape Town, pp 344-348
45. Smith VR, Steenkamp M (1990) Climate change and its ecological implications at a subantarctic island. Oecologia 85:14-24
46. Smith VR, Steenkamp M (1992a) Macroinvertebrates and litter nutrient release on a sub-Antarctic island. S Afr J Bot 58:105-116
47. Smith VR , Steenkamp M (1992b) Soil macrofauna and nitrogen on a sub-Antarctic island. Oecologia 92:201-206
48. Southwood TRE (1978) Ecological methods with particular reference to the study of insect populations, 2nd edn. Chapman & Hall, London
49. Van Aarde R, Ferreira SM, Wassenaar TD, Erasmus DG (1996) With the cats away the mice may play. S Afr J Sci 92:357-358
50. Watkins BP, Cooper J. (1986) Introduction, present status and control of alien species at the Prince Edward Islands, subantarctic. S Afr J Antarct Res 16:86-94
51. Zar J (1996) Biostatistical analysis, 3rd edn. Prentice-Hall, London