Niche Specialization and Conservation Biology of Cicindela nevadica lincolniana
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...Tiger beetles are highly sensitive to food availability in both larval development and fecundity (Pearson and Knisley 1985, Knisley and Juliano 1988), therefore, it is likely that sympatric tiger beetles in this system are competing for food resources....
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...Here we examine behavioral mechanisms for niche partitioning along with improving techniques for captive rearing protocol and increasing public awareness about the conservation of this local insect....
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...It is also clear that the amount of food (and potentially quality of food) consumed by the female beetle is also of vital importance for egg production (TB per obs, Pearson and Knisley 1985)....
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...The amount of prey items consumed by adult females is directly tied to their ability to lay larger numbers of eggs (Pearson and Knisley 1985)....
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...For example, soil moisture, larval competition, parasitoids, and prey abundance all have large impacts on larval survival (Palmer 1976, Palmer 1979, Knisley and Pearson 1981, Hori 1982, Pearson and Knisley 1985, Knisley and Juliano 1988, Hoback et al. 2000, Allgeier 2005)....
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...The greater the precision these conditions can be defined (life history requirements, habitat features, natural enemies, etc.) the more useful the bioindicator (Wilson 1994)....
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...An organism‟s risk of extinction is linked to the width of its ecological niche (Kammer et al. 1997, Kotiaho et al. 2005)....
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...Some suggest that those individuals residing in a narrow niche are the first individuals most likely to succumb to extinction (Kammer et al. 1997, Kotiaho et al. 2005)....
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...Organisms that are highly specialized, such as in the case of C. n. lincolniana, are thought to be more susceptible to extinction due to habitat destruction (Kammer et al 1997, Kotiaho et al. 2005)....
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...Evidence suggests that variability within an ecologically functional trait is relevant to determining the cause of niche breadth (Roughgarden 1972, Kammer et al 1997, Kotiaho et al. 2005)....
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...Organisms that are highly specialized tend to 16 be more susceptible to extinction when their habitats are disrupted (Kammer et al. 1997, Kotiaho et al. 2005)....
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...How tiger beetles allocate their time in relation to temperature has been studied extensively (Dreisig 1980, Dreisig 1981, Dreisig 1984....
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...There is a long history of thermoregulation studies that focus on tiger beetles and that link thermoregulation behaviors to rescource partitioning (Dreisig 1980, Dreisig 1981, Dreisig 1984....
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...Shelford (1908) used well ventilated glass-roofed vivariums....
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...Shelford (1908) is responsible for providing the foundation for what we know about the life history of many North American tiger beetles....
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...Cicindela as a group of insects is well studied and many rearing techniques have become well established for a variety of species (Shelford 1908, Soans & Soans 1972, Palmer 1978, Palmer 1979, Hori 1982, Knisley 1997, Knisley and Hill 2005, Allgeier 2005)....
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...Shelford (1908) also created cages made from glass plates separated by glass tubing that corresponded to the width of the prothorax of the species he was studying....
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...As part of his research on the 7 life histories of North American tiger beetles Shelford (1908) reared at least 11 species of tiger beetles in the lab....
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