Biodiversity and microclimatic divergence of chrysomelid beetles at 'Evolution Canyon', Lower Nahal Oren, Mt Carmel, Israel

Vladimir Chikatunov; Tomáš Pavlícek; Igor Lopatin; Eviatar Nevo

doi:10.1006/bijl.1999.0322

Biodiversity and microclimatic divergence of chrysomelid beetles at 'Evolution Canyon', Lower Nahal Oren, Mt Carmel, Israel

Vladimir Chikatunov, Tomáš Pavlícek, Igor Lopatin, Eviatar Nevo

Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology

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Abstract

Ninety species of leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae, Coleoptera, Insecta) were recorded fom the 'Evolution Canyon' microsite (sample area 7000 m²), Lower Nahal Oren, Mt Carmel, Israel. Species richness was significantly (P= 0.018) higher on the drier, climatically more fluctuating savanna-like, south-facing slope (SFS, 60 species, sample area 3000 m²) than on the cooler, wetter and climatically less variable north-facing slope (NFS, 44 species, sample area 3000 m²), as in other terrestrial taxa. More species were found common to the local xeric SFS at the Canyon and the regional southern desert areas (Judcan and Negev Deserts), than to the NFS and Galilee Mountains, respectively, suggesting that local patterns mirror regional patterns. Interslope differences in microclimate variability range indicate that this factor might be determinant of interslope species richness differences. Most species were collected in the spring (April; 47%) and least in the autumn (September; 3%) over the collecting period from March 1995 to June 1997. (C) 2000 The Linnean Society of London.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	139-152
Number of pages	14
Journal	Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
Volume	69
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1006/bijl.1999.0322
State	Published - 2000

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Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Israeli Ministry of Science, grant no. 4147, by a grant from the German Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology (BMBF) and the Israeli Ministry of Science (MOS) under the aegis of DLR-Projeckttragerschaft Gesundheitsforschung (Bonn), by AVI Fellowship to Dr Tomáˇ Pavlícˇek, British Friends of Haifa University, the Israeli Discount Bank of Chair of Evolutionary Biology and the Ancell-teicher Research Foundation for Genetics and Molecular Evolution. We would like to thank Dr Mathew Spencer for valuable comments and help with language revision.

Keywords

Chrysomelidae
Evolution ecology
Microgeography
Microhabitat
Zoogeography

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Biodiversity and microclimatic divergence of chrysomelid beetles at 'Evolution Canyon', Lower Nahal Oren, Mt Carmel, Israel

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