A unique guild of Lepidoptera associated with the glacial relict populations of Labrador tea (Ledum palustre Linnaeus, 1753) in Central European peatlands (Insecta: Lepidoptera)

Spitzer, Karel; Jaroš, Josef

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A unique guild of Lepidoptera associated with the glacial relict populations of Labrador tea (Ledum palustre Linnaeus, 1753) in Central European peatlands (Insecta: Lepidoptera)

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SYSNO ASEP	0429358
Document Type	J - Journal Article
R&D Document Type	Journal Article
Subsidiary J	Článek ve WOS
Title	A unique guild of Lepidoptera associated with the glacial relict populations of Labrador tea (Ledum palustre Linnaeus, 1753) in Central European peatlands (Insecta: Lepidoptera)
Author(s)	Spitzer, Karel (BC-A)_RID Jaroš, Josef (BC-A)
Source Title	SHILAP Revista de Lepidopterologia. - : Sociedad Hispano-Luso-Americana de Lepidopterologia - ISSN 0300-5267 Roč. 42, č. 166 (2014), s. 319-327
Number of pages	9 s.
Language	eng - English
Country	ES - Spain
Keywords	Insecta ; Lepidoptera ; relict peat bogs
Subject RIV	EH - Ecology, Behaviour
Institutional support	BC-A - RVO:60077344
UT WOS	000338444400014
Annotation	The highly specific local guild of nine tyrphobiontic (peat bog specialists) and eight tyrphophile (peat bog affiliates) species of moths (16 species) and only one tyrphobiontic species of butterfly (Lepidoptera) associated with the Labrador tea (Ledum palustre Linnaeus, 1753) is a unique phenomenon of peat bogs near the fragmentary southern frontier of the boreal zone in Central Europe. 19 species are tyrphoneutral of wide ecological amplitude. Composition of tyrphobionts and tyrphophiles seems to be a model example of glacial relict peatland Lepidoptera species and their cold-adapted continental subarctic food plant. A similar guild is recorded from subarctic tundra biotopes only. This community of moths and butterflies, which is found only in a few relict isolated peat bogs, is determined and buffered by a unique Sphagnum microclimate of postglacial/Holocene peat bogs (“climatic trap”) and the highly specific cold-adapted food plants (glacial relicts) represented by the Labrador tea. All such isolated ancient peat bogs with Ledum palustre and their Lepidoptera need complete habitat conservation with special respect to hydrological conditions and urgent monitoring of their glacial relict insect community under a possible impact of climatic change.
Workplace	Biology Centre (since 2006)
Contact	Dana Hypšová, eje@eje.cz, Tel.: 387 775 214
Year of Publishing	2015

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