Differences in ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) of original and reconstructed tallgrass prairies in northeastern Iowa, USA, and impact of 3-year spring burn cycles

Journal of Insect Conservation

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 153-166

  Larsen, Kirk J ^a   Work, Timothy W ^b  

^a LUTHER COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carabids; Fire; Grasslands

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; PRAIRIE; PRESCRIBED BURNING; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA;

EID: 0346282799     PISSN: 1366638X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1027309101653     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Anonymous 1999. PC-ORD, version 4.14. Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data. MjM Software, Gleneden Beach, Oregon.
2. Anderson R.C. 1990. The historic role of fire in the North American grassland. In: Collins S.L. and Wallace L.L. (eds), Fire in North American Prairies, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, pp. 8-18.
3. Bousquet Y. and Larochelle A. 1993. Catalogue of the Geadephaga (Coleoptera: Trachypachidae, Rhysodidae, Carabidae including Cicindelini) of America North of Mexico. Mem. Entomol. Soc. Can. 167: 1-397.
4. Brand R.H. and Dunn C.P. 1998. Diversity and abundance of springtails (Insecta: Collembola) in native and restored tallgrass prairies. Am. Midl. Nat. 139: 235-242.
5. Clarke K.R. 1993. Non-parametric multivariate analysis of changes in community structure. Aust. J. Ecol. 18: 117-143.
6. Collins S.L. 1990. Introduction: fire as a natural disturbance in tallgrass prairie ecosystems. In: Collins S.L. and Wallace L.L. (eds), Fire in North American Tallgrass Prairies, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, pp. 3-7.
7. Colwell R.K. 1997. Estimates: Statistical Estimation of Species Richness and Shared Species from Samples, version 5, User's Guide and application published at: http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/estimates.
8. Debinski D.M. and Babbit A.M. 1997. Butterfly species in native prairie and restored prairie. Prair. Nat. 29: 219-227.
9. Dufrêne M. and Legendre P. 1997. Species assemblages and indicator species: the need for a flexible asymmetrical approach. Ecol. Monogr. 67: 345-366.
10. Greenslade P.J.M. 1964. Pitfall trapping as a method for studying populations of Carabidae (Coleoptera). J. Anim. Ecol. 33: 301-310.
11. Harris D.L. and Whitcomb W.H. 1974. Effects of fire on populations of certain species of ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Flor. Entomol. 57: 97-103.
12. Holliday N.J. 1984. Carabid beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) from a burned spruce forest (Picea spp.). Can. Entomol. 116: 919-922.
13. Holliday N.J. 1991. Species responses of carabid beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) during post-fire regeneration of boreal forest. Can. Entomol. 123: 1369-1389.
14. Hulbert L.C. 1988. Causes of fire effects in tallgrass prairies. Ecology 69: 46-58.
15. Hutcheson K. 1970. A test for comparing diversities based on the Shannon formula. J. Theor. Biol. 29: 151-154.
16. Krebs C.J. 1989. Ecological Methodology, Harper Collins, New York.
17. Larochelle A. 1990. The food of carabid beetles. Fabreries Suppl. 5: 1-132.
18. Larsen K.J. and Williams J.B. 1999. Influence of fire and trapping effort on ground beetles in a reconstructed tallgrass prairie. Prair. Nat. 31: 75-86.
19. Larsen K.J., Work T.T. and Purrington F.F. 2003. Habitat use patterns by ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) of northeastern Iowa. Pedobiologia 47: 288-299.
20. Lavigne R.J. and Campion M.K. 1978. The effect of ecosystem stress on the abundance and biomass of Carabidae (Coleoptera) on the shortgrass prairie. Environ. Entomol. 7: 88-92.
21. Lindroth C.H. 1961-1969. The ground beetles (Carabidae, excl. Cicindelinae) of Canada and Alaska, parts 1-6. Opus. Ent. Suppl. 20, 24, 29, 33, 34, 35. Lund, Sweden.
22. Lövei G.L. and Sunderland K.D. 1996. Ecology and behavior of ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Annu. Rev. Entomol. 41: 231-256.
23. Lussenhop J. 1976. Soil arthropod response to prairie burning. Ecology 57: 88-98.
24. McCoy E.D. 1987. The ground-dwelling beetles of periodically-burned plots of sandhill. Insect Behav. Ecol. 70: 31-39.
25. McCullough D.G., Werner R.A. and Neumann D. 1998. Fire and insects in northern and boreal forest ecosystems of North America. Annu. Rev. Entomol. 43: 107-127.
26. Mushinsky H.R. and Gibson D.J. 1991. The influence of fire periodicity on habitat structure. In: Bell S.S., McCoy E.D. and Mushinsky H.R. (eds), Habitat Structure: The Physical Arrangement of Objects in Space, Chapman and Hall, New York, pp. 237-259.
27. Nekola J.C. 2002. Effects of fire management on the richness and abundance of central North American grassland land snail faunas. Anim. Biodiv. Conserv. 25: 53-66.
28. Noonan G.R. 1991. Classification, Cladistics and Natural History of the Native North American Harpalus Latreille (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae: Harpalini), Excluding Subgenera Glanodes and Pseudophonus. Thomas Say Foundation Monograph, Vol. XIII, Entomological Society of America, Lanham, Maryland.
29. Opler P.A. 1981. Management of prairie habitats for insect conservation. J. Nat. Areas Assoc. 1: 3-6.
30. Orwig T. and Schlicht D. 1999. The last of the Iowa skippers. American Butterflies 7: 4-12.
31. Panzer R. 1988. Managing prairie remnants for insect conservation. Nat. Areas J. 8: 83-90.
32. Panzer R. 2002. Compatibility of prescribed burning with the conservation of insects in small, isolated prairie preserves. Conserv. Biol. 16: 1296-1307.
33. Panzer R. and Schwartz M. 2000. Effects of management burning on prairie insect species richness within a system of small, highly fragmented reserves. Biol. Conserv. 96: 363-369.
34. Reed C.C. 1997. Responses of prairie insects and other arthropods to prescription burns. Nat. Areas J. 17: 380-385.
35. Rickard W.H. 1974. Ground dwelling beetles in burned and unburned vegetation. J. Range Manag. 23: 293-294.
36. Samson F. and Knopf F. 1994. Prairie conservation in North America. Bioscience 44: 418-421.
37. Samson F.B. and Knopf F.L. (eds.) 1996. Prairie Conservation: Preserving North America's Most Endangered Ecosystem, Island Press, Washington, DC.
38. Seastedt T.R., Hayes D.C. and Petersen N.J. 1986. Effects of vegetation, burning and mowing on soil macroarthropods of tallgrass prairie. In: Clambey G.K. and Pemble R.H. (eds), The Prairie: Past, Present and Future - Proceedings of the Ninth North American Prairie Conference, Tri-College University Center for Environmental Studies, Fargo, North Dakota, pp. 99-102.
39. Smith D.D. 1998. Iowa prairie: original extent and loss, preservation and recovery attempts. J. Iowa Acad. Sci. 105: 94-108.
40. Swengel A.B. 1996. Effects of fire and hay management on abundance of prairie butterflies. Biol. Conserv. 76: 73-85.
41. Swengel A.B. and Swengel S.R. 2001. Effects of prairie and barrens management on butterfly faunal composition. Biodiv. Conserv. 10: 1757-1785.
42. Towne G. and Owensby C. 1984. Long-term effects of annual burning at different dates in ungrazed Kansas tallgrass prairie. J. Range Manag. 37: 392-397.
43. Van Amburg G.L., Swaby J.A. and Pemble R.H. 1981. Response of arthropods to a spring burn of a tallgrass prairie in northwestern Minnesota. In: Stuckey R.L. and Reese K.J. (eds), The Prairie Peninsula - "In the shadow" of Transeau. Proceedings of the Sixth North American Prairie Conference, Ohio Biological Survey Biological Notes No. 15, The Ohio State University Press, Columbus, Ohio, pp. 240-243.
44. Warren S.D., Scifres C.J. and Teel P.D. 1987. Response of grassland arthropods to burning: a review. Agri. Eco. Environ. 19: 105-130.
45. Zar J.H. 1999. Biostatistical Analysis, 4th edn. Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.