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DOI	10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109834
	Changes in species composition and diversity of a montane beetle community over the last millennium in the High Tatras; Slovakia: Implications for forest conservation and management
	Schafstall N.; Whitehouse N.; Kuosmanen N.; Svobodová-Svitavská H.; Saulnier M.; Chiverrell R.C.; Fleischer P.; Kuneš P.; Clear J.L.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0031-0182
卷号	555
英文摘要	Montane biomes are niche environments high in biodiversity with a variety of habitats. Often isolated, these non-continuous remnant ecosystems inhabit narrow ecological zones putting them under threat from changing climatic conditions and anthropogenic pressure. Twelve sediment cores were retrieved from a peat bog in Tatra National Park, Slovakia, and correlated to each other by wiggle-matching geochemical signals derived from micro-XRF scanning, to make a reconstruction of past conditions. A fossil beetle (Coleoptera) record, covering the last 1000 years at 50- to 100-year resolution, gives a new insight into changing flora and fauna in this region. Our findings reveal a diverse beetle community with varied ecological groups inhabiting a range of forest, meadow and synanthropic habitats. Changes in the beetle community were related to changes in the landscape, driven by anthropogenic activities. The first clear evidence for human activity in the area occurs c. 1250 CE and coincides with the arrival of beetle species living on the dung of domesticated animals (e.g. Aphodius spp.). From 1500 CE, human (re)settlement, and activities such as pasturing and charcoal burning, appear to have had a pronounced effect on the beetle community. Local beetle diversity declined steadily towards the present day, likely due to an infilling of the forest hollow leading to a decrease in moisture level. We conclude that beetle communities are directly affected by anthropogenic intensity and land-use change. When aiming to preserve or restore natural forest conditions, recording their past changes in diversity can help guide conservation and restoration. In doing so, it is important to look back beyond the time of significant human impact, and for this, information contained in paleoecological records is irreplaceable. © 2020 Elsevier B.V.
英文关键词	Biodiversity; Central Europe; Climate change; Coleoptera; Human impact; Nature conservation
语种	英语
scopus关键词	beetle; community dynamics; fossil record; human activity; mountain environment; paleoecology; paleoenvironment; peatland; reconstruction; species diversity; Slovakia; Tatras National Park; Animalia; Coleoptera
来源期刊	Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/150419
作者单位	Dept. of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Kamycka 129Praha-Suchdol 165 00, Czech Republic; Archaeology, School of Humanities, University of Glasgow, 1 University Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, United Kingdom; School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Plymouth University, Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon PL4 8AA, United Kingdom; Dept. of Geosciences and Geography, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 64, (Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2)FI-00014, Finland; Laboratory of paleoecology, Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Zámek 1, Průhonice, 252 43, Czech Republic; Dept. of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool, Roxby Building, Liverpool, L69 7ZT, United Kingdom; Faculty of Forestry, Technical University in Zvolen, Ul. T. G. Masaryka 24, Zvolen, 960 01, Slovakia; State Forest of TANAP, Tatranská Lomnica 64Vysoké Tatry-Tatranská Lomnica 059 60, Slovakia; Dept. of Botany, Charles University, Benátská 433/2, Praha 2,...
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Schafstall N.,Whitehouse N.,Kuosmanen N.,et al. Changes in species composition and diversity of a montane beetle community over the last millennium in the High Tatras; Slovakia: Implications for forest conservation and management[J],2020,555.
APA	Schafstall N..,Whitehouse N..,Kuosmanen N..,Svobodová-Svitavská H..,Saulnier M..,...&Clear J.L..(2020).Changes in species composition and diversity of a montane beetle community over the last millennium in the High Tatras; Slovakia: Implications for forest conservation and management.Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology,555.
MLA	Schafstall N.,et al."Changes in species composition and diversity of a montane beetle community over the last millennium in the High Tatras; Slovakia: Implications for forest conservation and management".Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 555(2020).