Urban , industrial and other manmade sites as analogues of natural habitats for Carabidae
Urban , industrial and other manmade sites as analogues of natural habitats for Carabidae
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城市、工业和其他人造场地作为步甲科自然栖息地的类似物
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2001
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M. Telfer
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B. Eversham;D. Roy;M. Telfer
The British landscape is almost all man-modified. Intensive agriculture dominates the lowlands, seminatural habitats surviving as fragments in an agricultural matrix (Barr et al. 1993). It has been argued that farming pre-dates many forms of management on which seminatural habitats now depend for their maintenance, such as grazing regimes of grassland and coppicing of woodland (Stoate 1995). This explains the existence of stenotopic and threatened farmland species, such as weeds (Firbank et al. 1994), and the ‘traditional arable’ component of the British carabid fauna (Telfer & Eversham 1996). However, over the past fifty years, intensive application of herbicides and insecticides, and other changes in farming practice, have removed all but a few species from the modern agricultural matrix, and many ‘traditional arable’ species are now endangered (Wilson 1992, Telfer & Eversham 1996). Apart from these farmland relics, most stenotopic species are confined to increasingly fragmented remnants of seminatural habitats, of value to nature conservation (e.g. Ratcliffe 1977). In the face of landscape simplification (Hengeveld 1994), how have carabid species responded? This study aims to explore the role of anthropogenic sites in carabid survival. Species may be categorised according to their geographical and habitat range as follows: (a) ubiquitous species are geographically wide-ranging, (b) eurytopic species are found in a wide range of habitats,(c) stenotopic species are specific to one Urban, industrial and other manmade sites as analogues of natural habitats for Carabidae