Landscape-scale terrestrial factors are also vital in shaping Odonata assemblages of watercourses.

ABSTRACT: Habitat loss and fragmentation causes a decline in insect populations. Odonata (both dragonflies and damselflies) are especially threatened by the destruction of both aquatic and terrestrial environment. Moreover, effects of large-scale habitat heterogeneity on Odonata assemblages are poorly studied. In a two years study along East-European lowland watercourses both aquatic and terrestrial environment were studied to reveal the importance of local (e.g. water depth, macrovegetation cover, etc.) and landscape-scale (e.g. farmland patch size, forest patch proportion, etc.) variables to Odonata (as well as to dragonflies and damselflies separately) through increasing spatial sampling scales. The specimens were sampled using 500 m long transects from May to September. Results, both on local an

SUBMITTER: Nagy HB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6890666 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature