稻田周围杂草地生境节肢动物群落的物种组成

2001年5--9月,对福建省古田县中稻田边杂草地生境的节肢动物群落,开展了系统调查,共采集到节肢动物2纲14目112科343种(或类)。其中,天敌184种(包括71种捕食性蜘蛛,31种捕食性昆虫和82种寄生性天敌),害虫52种;中性昆虫107种。     

吡虫啉对烟田节肢动物群落的影响研究

利用群落参数分析了吡虫啉对烟田节肢动物群落及其各亚群落的影响。结果表明,施药后对烟田节肢动物群落、害虫亚群落的物种数有一定的影响,对天敌昆虫和蜘蛛亚群落物种数的影响不明显。5月23日施药后至6月13日施药区(Ⅱ)和对照区节肢动物群落、害虫亚群落个体数均下降,下降程度施药区大于对照区。6月14日施药后施药区节肢动物群落、害虫亚群落个体数下降,对照区显著上升。两次施药对天敌昆虫和蜘蛛亚群落个体数的影响不明显,施药后一段时间内优势种烟蚜种群个体数量显著下降,使节肢动物群落和害虫亚群落优势集中性下降,多样性指数和稳定性增加。     

转双抗虫基因107杨节肢动物群落特征及相对稳定性

于2015年5—9月对唐山市滦南县苗圃场内的转双抗虫基因(Bt Cry1Ac和API基因)107杨(简称:转抗虫基因107杨)及未转基因107杨(简称:对照杨)进行了节肢动物群落调查,利用群落特征指数、群落相似性系数、群落相对稳定性和主成分分析法对转抗虫基因107杨节肢动物群落特征、相似性、相对稳定性及主成分进行对比分析。调查共获得节肢动物6818头,隶属于2纲,8目,43科,58种。研究结果表明:转抗虫基因107杨和对照杨节肢动物群落中以鳞翅目、鞘翅目、膜翅目、双翅目昆虫为主要类群,其中鳞翅目昆虫个体数量最多;鳞翅目和半翅目昆虫个体数量与对照杨差异显著;在功能类群上,转抗虫基因107杨食叶昆虫个体数量较对照杨显著减少,刺吸昆虫个体数量显著增加;转抗虫基因107杨节肢动物群落多样性指数、均匀度指数较高,优势度指数较低,节肢动物群落物种分布较均匀;相似性结果显示,物种组成与对照杨相似度较高;转抗虫基因107杨节肢动物群落物种间在数量上的制约作用较强;主成分分析表明食叶昆虫物种数量与个体数量、刺吸昆虫物种数量和其他植食性昆虫个体数量是影响转抗虫基因107杨与对照杨节肢动物群落变化的共同主导因子。     

不同种植环境夏玉米田节肢动物群落特征及稳定性

对云南普洱不同种植环境夏玉米田节肢动物群落进行调查,应用群落特征指数、群落稳定性和主成分分析法,对不同种植环境夏玉米田节肢动物群落特征、稳定性和主成分进行对比分析。结果表明,调查区夏玉米田共采集到节肢动物10174头,隶属2纲15目100科261种,其中单作地夏玉米田采集到节肢动物共计5604头,隶属2纲13目84科168种,混交地夏玉米田采集到节肢动物共计4570头,隶属2纲15目90科209种。与单作地夏玉米田相比,混交地夏玉米田节肢动物群落物种数、多样性指数、均匀性指数、丰富度指数、天敌物种数及个体数均较高;植食性昆虫个体数及其所占比例、优势集中性指数和优势度指数较低;群落较稳定;群落多样性、均匀性、丰富度等指数随时间变化波动较小;单作地夏玉米田中,刺吸昆虫个体数量和食叶昆虫物种数量是主导节肢动物群落变化的最主要因子;混交地夏玉米田中,寄生昆虫个体数量、捕食昆虫物种数量和刺吸昆虫个体数量主导了节肢动物群落的变化。     

白斑跳珠Evarcha albaria(L.Koch)

正蜘蛛是节肢动物门Arthropoda蛛形纲Arachnida蜘蛛目Araneae)种的通称。《应用昆虫学报》不仅发表昆虫(节肢动物门的昆虫纲Insecta)的各类研究成果,同时也从广义角度关注蜘蛛等相关研究成果的报道。本期封面照片为白斑跳珠Evarcha albaria (L. Koch)(跳蛛科Salticidae,李枢强鉴定物种名称,张润志拍摄照片),2020年9月26日拍摄于天津宝坻周良庄。     

被误会的昆虫

节肢动物是动物界里种数最多的门类,昆虫则是节肢动物门中现存种类最多的纲,其种数约占今动物界的80％,在地球上分布极为广泛。也许由于昆虫太多了,于是有人便不加思索地将并非昆虫的其它节肢动物,象蜈蚣(属多足纲)和蜘蛛(属蛛形纲)等,也当成了昆虫。前者见于《昆虫食品琐谈》(载《化石》1992年第1期);后者见于《古生物学教程》(高等学校教材,地质出版社,1987年版)。至于一般报纸、广播将蝎、螨、蜱(均属蛛形纲)当作昆虫介绍,更是屡有见闻。     

昆虫共生细菌Rickettsia的研究进展

Rickettsia是传播和引起人类与其他脊椎动物疾病的胞内共生菌。引起脊椎动物疾病的这些Rickettsia, 其部分生活史是在节肢动物体内完成的;而另外许多Rickettsia, 其整个生活史都是在宿主节肢动物体内完成。为了叙述方便, 把前者称为脊椎动物Rickettsia, 后者称为节肢动物Rickettsia。过去的研究主要集中在医学上具有重大意义的脊椎动物Rickettsia, 而关于节肢动物Rickettsia的生物学特性等研究则相对较少。近年来, 研究者们加大了对昆虫Rickettsia的研究, 发现昆虫Rickettsia广泛分布于昆虫中, 且有两种存在形式。其可以通过垂直卵传的方式在世代间传递, 也可以通过寄生蜂和寄主植物达到在昆虫之间传播的目的。昆虫Rickettsia可通过诱导孤雌生殖、 诱导杀雄等方式影响宿主的生殖行为。其对不同宿主昆虫可产生对宿主有利或有害的作用;可增强宿主昆虫抵御高温和寄生蜂的能力, 与宿主昆虫对药剂的敏感性相关。最后, 昆虫Rickettsia具有一个简化的基因组, 且存在进一步减小的可能性。     

拖鞋肋园蛛

<正>蜘蛛是节肢动物门Arthropoda蛛形纲Arachnida蜘蛛目Araneae)种的通称。《应用昆虫学报》不仅发表昆虫(节肢动物门的昆虫纲Insecta)的各类研究成果,同时也从广义角度关注蜘蛛等相关研究成果的报道,同时很多蜘蛛是昆虫的天敌。本期封面照片提供了拖鞋肋园蛛Alenatea touxie Song et Zhu(园蛛科Araneidae,李枢强鉴定物种名称,张润志拍摄照片)的皮蜕和蜘蛛,2020年9月27日拍摄于北京农业展览馆院内。蜘蛛在发育过程中,在激素的作用下,要经历多次蜕皮才能慢慢长大。     

拖鞋肋园蛛

正蜘蛛是节肢动物门Arthropoda蛛形纲Arachnida蜘蛛目Araneae)种的通称。《应用昆虫学报》不仅发表昆虫(节肢动物门的昆虫纲Insecta)的各类研究成果,同时也从广义角度关注蜘蛛等相关研究成果的报道,同时很多蜘蛛是昆虫的天敌。本期封面照片提供了拖鞋肋园蛛Alenatea touxie Song et Zhu(园蛛科Araneidae,李枢强鉴定物种名称,张润志拍摄照片)的皮蜕和蜘蛛,2020年9月27日拍摄于北京农业展览馆院内。蜘蛛在发育过程中,在激素的作用下,要经历多次蜕皮才能慢慢长大。     

鳞纹肖蛸

正蜘蛛是节肢动物门Arthropoda蛛形纲Arachnida蜘蛛目Araneae)种的通称。《应用昆虫学报》不仅发表昆虫(节肢动物门的昆虫纲Insecta)的各类研究成果,同时也从广义角度关注蜘蛛等相关研究成果的报道,同时很多蜘蛛是昆虫的天敌。本期封面照片为鳞纹肖蛸Tetragnatha squamata Karsch(肖蛸科Tetragnathidae,李枢强鉴定物种名称,张润志拍摄照片),2020年7月30日拍摄于江苏句容。鳞纹肖蛸广泛分布于我国河北、安徽、江苏、湖北、湖南、福建、江西、广东、广西、四川、     

Identifying areas of high importance for orchid conservation in east Macedonia (NE Greece)

The establishment of a network of reserves is of fundamental importance to the loss of biodiversity. Seven different area selection methods for the establishment of a reserve network were applied in the present study: (a) 5% cut-off value of the grid cells with the highest species richness or conservation value, (b) complementarity analysis using as criteria species richness or conservation value or rarest species richness, and (c) mixed complementarity analysis using as criteria species richness or conservation value. These methods were applied in the orchid taxa of east Macedonia. The conservation values of taxa were estimated on the basis of regional rarity, broad-scale rarity, and species specialization. The spatial overlap between the resulting networks and the Natura 2000 network of the study area was assessed. Furthermore, the efficiency of the latter network to protect the orchid taxa of the study area was examined. Our results suggest that: (a) a multiscale estimation of rarity is necessary for the unbiased estimation of species conservation values; (b) species specialization adds valuable ecological information to the assessment of taxa conservation values; (c) complementarity and mixed complementarity analyses on species richness or conservation value safeguard all the taxa of the region; (d) complementarity analysis on the basis of the richness of the rarest species safeguards all the rarest taxa, but not the total number of the remaining taxa; (e) the 5% cut-off value on species richness or conservation value fails to protect all the taxa of the region, including a large number of the rarest taxa; and (f) the Natura 2000 network, despite its large coverage in the study area, fails to safeguard all the taxa, including some of the rarest.     

高黎贡山兰花的多样性

对高黎贡山兰科植物的生物地理学和多样性进行了研究。1.兰科是高黎贡山种子植物中最大的科,包括75属265种。2.高黎贡山兰花起源于新、旧世界的热带和温带, 热带属占60%(45属),温带属占38.67%(29属),包括2个云南特有属。但是,高黎贡山兰科植物与地中海地区和中亚地区的联系十分微弱。3.高黎贡山的兰花以地生兰为主。这里,57.33%(43属)为地生兰,而附生兰和腐生兰仅分别为31属和3属。4.兰花物种的分布区式样表明高黎贡山兰花以温带兰为主 温带兰占总种数的69.43%(184种),包括东亚成分即滇西高黎贡山-东喜马拉雅分布的种和中国西南部特有种,它们是高黎贡山兰花区系的核心。5.高黎贡山兰科的特有现象在于1)具有云南二个特有属蜂腰兰Bulleyia和反唇兰Smithorchis;2)有高黎贡山特有种21个,如泸水兜兰Paphiopedilum markianum,贡山风兰Cymbidium gongshanense,贡山贝母兰Coelogyne gongshanense,热带附生兰——万带兰亚科在高黎贡山没有形成特有种;3)高黎贡山北段的特有种比南段丰富贡山有14种,腾冲仅有4种; 海拔1800～2100 m的梯度带特有种最多(13种);4)高黎贡山有云南特有种10种,其中小花槽舌兰Holcoglossum junceum是一个热带种,因为板块位移而来到了亚热带地域;5)高黎贡山的兰科植物中有19.25%(51种)是中国特有种,它们出现在高黎贡山,分布在云南其他地区和西南的一些省区。高黎贡山特有种,分布到高黎贡山的云南特有种和分布到高黎贡山的中国特有种一共为82种,占高黎贡山兰科总种数的30.91%, 兰科在高黎贡山是一个特有化程度很高的类群。     

Support for the Multi-taxa Approach in Biodiversity Assessment, as Shown by Epigaeic Invertebrates in an Afromontane Forest Archipelago

Often a single indicator invertebrate taxon is used for assessing changing landscape patterns. However, we argue here against the exclusive selection of a single group. Covariation in diversity patterns of spiders, carabids, staphylinids and ants were compared in and between five highly naturally-fragmented Afromontane forest patches (size range: 3.5–25.2 ha) in South Africa. Significantly fewer individuals and species were captured in smaller forest patches (<6 ha) for most of the taxa, except Formicidae, where a higher number of species were captured in medium-sized patches (7–9 ha). When sampling effort was standardized, a higher diversity (rarefaction and Simpson's diversity index) was obtained in the smaller patches for Carabidae, Staphylinidae and Formicidae. The only significant positive correlation between taxa, in terms of numbers of species, was between Carabidae and Staphylinidae. The other taxa showed only weak positive correlations between species richness, or negative correlations. Multivariate techniques showed significant species turnover between patch assemblages for each taxon, and also showed that some taxa are more similar in assemblage-structure than others. An index of complementarity showed that species compositions of the selected taxa varied greatly between forest patches of different sizes. Our results support the multi-taxa approach, in conservation studies, even at the level of taxonomically-related groups sharing a common habitat stratum.     

Vulnerable taxa of European Plecoptera (Insecta) in the context of climate change

We evaluated 516 species and/or subspecies of European stoneflies for vulnerability to climate change according to autoecological data. The variables considered were stream zonation preference, altitude preference, current preference, temperature range preference, endemism and rare species. Presence in ecoregions was used to analyse the vulnerability of taxa in relation to their distribution. We selected the variables that provided information on vulnerability to change in climate. Thus, we chose strictly crenal taxa, high-altitude taxa, rheobionts, cold stenotherm taxa, micro-endemic taxa and rare taxa. Our analysis showed that at least 324 taxa (62.79%) can be included in one or more categories of vulnerability to climate change. Of these, 43 taxa would be included in three or more vulnerability categories, representing the most threatened taxa. The most threatened species and the main factors affecting their distribution are discussed. Endangered potamal species, with populations that have decreased mainly as a consequence of habitat alteration, also could suffer from the effects of climate change. Thus, the total number of taxa at risk is particularly high. Not only are a great diversity of European stoneflies concentrated in the Alps, Pyrenees and Iberian Peninsula, but so are the most vulnerable taxa. These places are likely to be greatly affected by climate change according to climate models. In general, an impoverishment of European Plecoptera taxa will probably occur as a consequence of climate change, and only taxa with wide tolerance ranges will increase in abundance, resulting in lower overall faunal diversity.     

Which functional processes control the short-term effect of grazing on net primary production in grasslands?

For unicellular organisms, a lack of effects of local species richness on ecosystem function has been proposed due to their locally high species richness and their ubiquitous distribution. High dispersal ability and high individual numbers may enable unicellular taxa to occur everywhere. Using our own and published data sets on uni- and multicellular organisms, we conducted thorough statistical analyses to test whether (1) unicellular taxa show higher relative local species richness compared to multicellular taxa, (2) unicellular taxa show lower slopes of the species:area relationships and species:individuals relationships, and (3) the species composition of unicellular taxa is less influenced by geographic distance compared to multicellular taxa. We found higher local species richness compared to the global species pool for unicellular organisms than for metazoan taxa. The difference was significant if global species richness was conservatively estimated but not if extrapolated, and therefore higher richness estimates were used. Both microalgae and protozoans showed lower slopes between species richness and sample size (area or individuals) compared to macrozoobenthos, also indicating higher local species richness for unicellular taxa. The similarity of species composition of both benthic diatoms and ciliates decreased with increasing geographic distance. This indicated restricted dispersal ability of protists and the absence of ubiquity. However, a steeper slope between similarity and distance was found for polychaetes and corals, suggesting a stronger effect of distance on the dispersal of metazoans compared to unicellular taxa. In conclusion, we found partly different species richness patterns among uni- and multicellular eukaryotes, but no strict ubiquity of unicellular taxa. Therefore, the effect of local unicellular species richness on ecosystem function has to be reanalyzed. Macroecological patterns suggested for multicellular organisms may differ in unicellular communities.     

The accuracy of methods for coding and sampling higher-level taxa for phylogenetic analysis: a simulation study

Many phylogenetic analyses, particularly morphological studies, use higher taxa (e.g., genera, families) rather than species as terminal taxa. This general approach requires dealing with interspecific variation among the species that make up the higher taxon. In this paper, I review different parsimony methods for coding and sampling higher taxa and compare their relative accuracies using computer simulations. Despite their widespread use, methods that involve coding higher taxa as terminals perform poorly in simulations, relative to splitting up the higher taxa and using species as terminals. Among the methods that use higher taxa as terminals, coding a taxon based on the most common condition among the included species (majority or modal coding) is generally more accurate than other coding methods, such as coding taxa as missing or polymorphic. The success of the majority method, and results of further simulations, suggest that in many cases "common equals primitive" within variable taxa, at least for low and intermediate rates of character change. The fixed-only method (excluding variable characters) performs very poorly, a result that is indirectly supported by analyses of published data for squamate reptiles. Sampling only a single species per higher taxon also yields low accuracy under many conditions. Along with recent studies of intraspecific polymorphism, the results of this study show the general importance of (1) including characters despite variation within taxa and (2) using methods that incorporate detailed information on the distribution of states within variable taxa.     

广东省自然保护区尺度陆生脊椎动物物种多样性与高级分类单元的关系

利用广东省自然保护区陆生脊椎动物名录,分析保护区尺度上物种与高级分类单元在数量上的关系.结果表明,属、科在数量上都随着物种数的增加而增加,且具有相似的增长趋势.物种-属、物种-科在数量上呈现出极显著相关关系(P<0.01,r>0.8),在乘幂模型、线性模型、指数模型和对数模型拟合中,乘幂模型拟合最好.结果显示了,保护区...     

Evolutionary patterns and genetic structure in localized and widespread species in the Stylidium caricifolium complex (Stylidiaceae)

The Stylidium caricifolium (Stylidiaceae) complex consists of seven currently recognized species and a taxon of putative hybrid origin endemic to southwest Western Australia. These taxa vary in geographical distribution from widespread, extending over a range of 500 km, to extremely localized, covering a range of only 0.5 km. Patterns of allozyme variation were investigated in 61 populations covering all taxa and two closely related species. Measures of genetic diversity were consistently lower and in some cases significantly lower in four rare and geographically restricted taxa compared with their widespread relatives. In contrast, genetic diversity in two other localized taxa was comparable or higher than in the widespread taxa. The level of divergence among populations was moderate to high, with a significant trend of higher F(ST) values for the widespread species to lower values for the geographically restricted and rare taxa. Phylogenetic relationships and levels of divergence indicate that most taxa are probably relictual rather than recently evolved. Geographical localization and rarity in this complex can be attributed to a range of factors associated with habitat specificity, historical and ecological processes that characterize the southwest region, and mode of origin.     

Hybridization between two parapatric ranid frog species in the northern Sierra Nevada,California, USA

Contact zones between species provide a unique opportunity to test whether taxa can hybridize or not. Cross‐breeding or hybridization between closely related taxa can promote gene flow (introgression) between species, adaptation, or even speciation. Though hybridization events may be short‐lived and difficult to detect in the field, genetic data can provide information about the level of introgression between closely related taxa. Hybridization can promote introgression between species, which may be an important evolutionary mechanism for either homogenization (reversing initial divergence between species) or reproductive isolation (potentially leading to speciation). Here, we used thousands of genetic markers from nuclear DNA to detect hybridization between two parapatric frog species (Rana boylii and Rana sierrae) in the Sierra Nevada of California. Based on principal components analysis, admixture, and analysis of heterozygosity at species diagnostic SNPs, we detected two F1 hybrid individuals in the Feather River basin, as well as a weak signal of introgression and gene flow between the frog species compared with frog populations from two other adjacent watersheds. This study provides the first documentation of hybridization and introgression between these two species, which are of conservation concern.