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Weather Influence on Native and Alien Mantis Dynamics and Their Abundance in the Current Climate Change Conditions

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  • Alexandru-Mihai Pintilioaie

    (Marine Biological Station “Prof. Dr. Ioan Borcea”, Agigea, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, B-dul Carol I, No. 20A, 700506 Iasi, Romania)

  • Beatrice Daniela Filote

    (Marine Biological Station “Prof. Dr. Ioan Borcea”, Agigea, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, B-dul Carol I, No. 20A, 700506 Iasi, Romania)

  • Lucian Sfîcă

    (Faculty of Geography and Geology, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, B-dul Carol I, No. 20A, 700506 Iasi, Romania)

  • Emanuel Ștefan Baltag

    (Marine Biological Station “Prof. Dr. Ioan Borcea”, Agigea, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, B-dul Carol I, No. 20A, 700506 Iasi, Romania)

Abstract

Humans have traded and transported alien species for millennia, both with and without intention to spread them to new areas. Consistent knowledge of their ecology will allow decision makers to take suitable conservation actions, with the aim of avoiding threatening native species. Praying mantids (Mantodea) are predatory insects with a high impact on local invertebrates’ fauna. An alien mantis species ( Hierodula tenuidentata ) could create a disequilibrium in both the local ecosystem and in autochthonous mantid species ( Mantis religiosa ) if it can adapt to the local ecological conditions. Through this study, we reveal that the number of Hierodula tenuidentata individuals from an Eastern European Natura 2000 site was 7.6 times higher than the number of Mantis religiosa suggesting a higher density of the allochthonous species in the study area. According to a GLM analysis, the population of Mantis religiosa , measured from August to the end of October, declines more rapidly and is negatively influenced by the number of days from the first day of the year, while the population of Hierodula tenuidentata is influenced by local weather factors. This is the first study which analyzes the influence of local weather factors (namely air temperature, precipitation, daily atmospheric pressure, daily wind direction and speed, daily cloud cover, sunshine duration and number of days from the first day of the year) on the abundance dynamic of mantises in order to understand their ecology in the current climate change influence.

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  • Alexandru-Mihai Pintilioaie & Beatrice Daniela Filote & Lucian Sfîcă & Emanuel Ștefan Baltag, 2022. "Weather Influence on Native and Alien Mantis Dynamics and Their Abundance in the Current Climate Change Conditions," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(23), pages 1-10, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:14:y:2022:i:23:p:15861-:d:987076
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