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Structure dynamics of insect communities in typical artificial and primeval forests during restoring stages in Xiaoxing’an Mountain, Northeast China.

LIU Zhe-qiang1, MA Ling1, JIAO Yue1, ZHANG Jing2, CAO Chuan-wang1, GU Wei1, MAN Zi-yuan1, ZHANG Man-yin3   

  1. (1School of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China; 2Heilongjiang Agricultural Economy Vocational College, Mudanjiang 157041, China; 3Institute of Wetland Research, Chinese Academy  of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China)
  • Online:2015-02-18 Published:2015-02-18

Abstract:

In order to study the insect community structure of typical artificial and primeval forests during different restoring stages in Xiaoxing’an Mountains, we had systematically investigated the insect communities of four typical forests in Liangshui Natural Reserve. A total of 11712 specimens of 293 species were collected, which belonged to 81 families of 10 orders, with Hymenoptera, Diptera, and Coleoptera being the dominant groups. The community stability analysis on insect communities showed that the insect communities of Dahurian larch plantation and original broadleaved Korean pine forest were more stable than other forest types. The principal components analysis indicated that predatory and neutral insects played important roles in the community stability which increased with the increasing predatory insect species and quantities. Polar ordination analysis showed that there was little difference between the environmental factors of Korean pine plantation and the original Korean pine forest.