title: Patterns of diversity and abundance of carrion insect assemblages in the Natural Park "Hoces del Río Riaza" (central Spain).
abstract: The patterns of diversity and abundance of the carrion insect species in the different habitats of the Natural Park "Hoces del Río Riaza" (central Spain) were studied with the use of carrion-baited traps. Representativeness of the inventories was assessed with the calculation of randomized species richness curves and nonparametric estimators. Coleoptera families, Silphidae and Dermestidae, and Diptera families, Calliphoridae and Muscidae, were dominant in every sampling habitat, but differences in the patterns of diversity and abundance were found. Lusitanian oakwood and riparian forest were the most diverse habitats with high abundance of saprophagous species, whereas more open (i.e., exposed to continuous sunlight during the day) habitats showed lower diversity values and a different species composition and distribution of species abundance, favoring thermophilous species and necrophagous species with high tolerance to different environmental conditions. Differences in the bioclimatical features of the sampled habitats are suggested to explain the composition and diversity of the carrion insect assemblages in different environments.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, Universidad de Alcalá, Ctra. Madrid-Barcelona km 33.6, 28871 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain arturo.baz@uah.es.
authors.forename: Arturo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Baz
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, Universidad de Alcalá, Ctra. Madrid-Barcelona km 33.6, 28871 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Blanca
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Cifrián
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, Universidad de Alcalá, Ctra. Madrid-Barcelona km 33.6, 28871 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Martín-Vega
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D044822:Biodiversity; D002980:Climate; D001517:Coleoptera / Q000145:classification / Q000502:physiology; D004175:Diptera / Q000145:classification / Q000502:physiology; D017753:Ecosystem; D065928:Forests; D007313:Insecta / Q000145:classification / Q000502:physiology*; D011156:Population Density; D013030:Spain
keywords: Carrion insect; Spain; assemblage; diversity