Ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) as bioindicators

By Johanna Rainio, J. Niemelä. Biodiversity and Conservation, 2003

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Arthropods as bioindicators of sustainable forest management, with a focus on plantation forests (2009, background): “Effective bioindicators should be distributed over a broad range of geographic areas and be taxonomically and ecologically well known and specific to the habitat requirements (Rainio and Niemelä, 2003).”
The potential utility of rodents and other small mammals as indicators of ecosystem 'integrity' of South African grasslands (2011, background): “1982; New 1999), insects (Majer 1983; Pearson and Cassola 1992; Beccaloni and Gaston 1995; McGeoch 1998; Petit and Usher 1998; Rodríguez et al. 1998; Jones and Eggleton 2000; Orgeas and Andersen 2001; McGeoch et al. 2002; Rainio and Niemelä 2003; Baker 2006), fish (Karr et al.”
Effects of forest fragmentation on species richness and composition of ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae and Brachinidae) in urban landscapes (2008, background): “…studies where it was shown that large and/or flightless species are vulnerable to natural and human disturbances Entomological Science (2008) 11, 39–4846 © 2007 The Entomological Society of Japan (Holliday 1991; Halme & Niemelä 1993; Rainio & Niemelä 2003; Magura et al. 2004; Purtauf et al. 2005).”
Insect species composition and diversity on intensive green roofs and adjacent level-ground habitats (2011, background): “Finally, the “carabids” group was included because ground beetles are sensitive to environmental stress (Niemelä et al. 2000) and their presence is more or less indicative of the response of at least a subset of other species that occupy the soil surface (Thiele 1977; Rainio and Niemelä 2003).”
The use of ants and other soil and litter arthropods as bio-indicators of the impacts of rainforest clearing and subsequent land use (2007, background): “carabid-beetles, which are also popular bio-indicators; see Rainio and Niemela 2003 ) may show different sensitivities, resulting in different conclusions.”
Animal species diversity driven by habitat heterogeneity/diversity: the importance of keystone structures (2004, background): “With respect to forest ecosystems, there was a slight tendency towards avian 80 Journal of Biogeography 31, 79–92, ª 2004 Blackwell Publishing Ltd studies (Fig.”
Carabids.org – a dynamic online database of ground beetle species traits (Coleoptera, Carabidae) (2014, background): “Carabids are a species-rich group (more than 3000 species in the western Palaearctic) and are intensively studied, inter alia due to their roles as bioindicators (Rainio & Niemel€a, 2003; Kotze et al., 2011) and mediators of nutrient flows in ecosystems (Loreau, 1995).”
Evaluation of mature conifer plantations as secondary habitat for epigeic forest arthropods (Coleoptera: Carabidae; Araneae) (2005, background): “Whether these differences were caused by direct (management) or indirect (moisture, pH) factors was not investigated and is difficult to pinpoint in most studies (Rainio and Niemelä, 2003).”
Linking bird, carabid beetle and butterfly life-history traits to habitat fragmentation in mosaic landscapes (2009, methodology): “We sampled carabid beetles at 244 sampling plots using pitfall traps, a standardized sampling method allowing the comparison of ground-dwelling beetle assemblages at different sites when it is not necessary to know the actual species abundances (Rainio and Niemelä 2003).”