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T1 Bionomics and distribution of the stag beetle lucanus cervus across europe
A1 Harvey, Deborah J.
A1 Gange, Alan C.
A1 Hawes, Colin J.
A1 Rink, Markus
A1 Abdehalden, Michele
A1 Al Fulaij, Nida
A1 Asp, Therese
A1 Ballerio, Alberto
A1 Bartolozzi, Luca
A1 Brustel, Hervé
A1 Cammaerts, Roger
A1 Carpaneto, Giuseppe Maria
A1 Cederberg, Bjorn
A1 Chobot, Karel
A1 Cianferoni, Fabio
A1 Drumont, Alain
A1 Ellwanger, Götz
A1 Ferreira, Sónia
A1 Grosso-Silva, José Manuel
A1 Gueorguiev, Borislav
A1 Harvey, William
A1 Hendriks, Paul
A1 Istrate, Petru
A1 Jansson, Nicklas
A1 Jelaska, Lucija Šerić
A1 Jendek, Eduard
A1 Jović, Miloš
A1 Kervyn, Thierry
A1 Krenn, Harald W.
A1 Kretschmer, Klaus
A1 Legakis, Anastasios
A1 Lelo, Suvad
A1 Moretti, Marco
A1 Merkl, Otto
A1 Megia Palma, Rodrigo Manuel
A1 Neculiseanu, Zaharia
A1 Rabitsch, Wolfgang
A1 Merino Rodríguez, Santiago
A1 Smit, John T.
A1 Smith, Matthew
A1 Sprecher-Uebersax, Eva
A1 Telnov, Dmitry
A1 Thomaes, Arno
A1 Thomsen, Philip F.
A1 Tykarski, Piotr
A1 Vrezec, Al
A1 Werner, Sebastian
A1 Zach, Peter
AB 1. The European stag beetle, Lucanus cervus, is thought to be widely distributed across its range, but a detailed description of its occurrence is lacking.2. Researchers in 41 countries were contacted and information sought on various life history characteristics of the insect. Data on adult body size were collected from seven countries.3. Habitat associations differ between the United Kingdom and mainland Europe. Larvae are most commonly associated with oak, but the duration of the larval stage and the number of instars varies by up to 100% across Europe.4. Adult size also varies; beetles from Spain, Germany, and the Netherlands are larger than those from Belgium or the UK. In the former countries, populations are composed mainly of large individuals, while in the UK, the majority of individuals are relatively small. Allometric relations between mandible size and total body length differ in Germany compared with the rest of Europe.5. Distribution maps of the insect, split into records pre- and post-1970, from 24 countries are presented. While these inevitably suffer from recorder bias, they indicate that in only two countries, Croatia and Slovakia, does the insect seem to be increasing in range.6. Our data suggest that the insect may be in decline across Europe, most likely due to habitat loss, and that conservation plans need to be produced that focus on the biology of the insect in the local area.
PB Wiley / The Royal Entomological Society
SN 1752-458X
YR 2011
FD 2011
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/112870
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/112870
LA eng
NO HARVEY, D.J., GANGE, A.C., HAWES, C.J. and RINK, M. (2011), Bionomics and distribution of the stag beetle, Lucanus cervus (L.) across Europe*. Insect Conservation and Diversity, 4: 23-38. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-4598.2010.00107.x
NO We are also grateful to the People’s Trust for Endangered Species, the British Ecological Society, the Forestry Commission and the Suffolk Naturalists’ Society for funding this work.
NO People’s Trust for Endangered Species
NO British Ecological Society
NO Forestry Commission (United Kingdom)
NO Suffolk Naturalists’ Society
DS Docta Complutense
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