Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Context-dependent local movements of the blue-tailed damselfly, Ischnura elegans: effects of pond characteristics and the landscape matrix

  • ORIGINAL PAPER
  • Published:
Journal of Insect Conservation Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

The loss of ponds and the fragmentation of their surrounding landscape negatively impacts the biodiversity of wetlands, such as damselflies. They are short-distance dispersers and can be influenced by the quality of suitable habitats and the landscape matrix. The aim of this study was to test the effect of the environmental context (i.e. pond characteristics and the surrounding landscape) on movements and survival probability in a damselfly species, Ischnura elegans. Three approaches (i.e. capture-mark-recapture, individual tracking and translocation studies) were performed in Northwestern France. The characteristics of ponds did not influence damselfly survival. However, the landscape context affected movements within ponds, and between ponds. Individuals from open-field ponds moved over longer distances than individuals from urban ponds. Moreover, in cases of disturbances, such as a pond drying up, movements from one pond to another were observed only in the open-field context. The ecological quality of the pond did not appear to affect survival of individuals, probably because I. elegans has a high tolerance to changes in ecological factors. However, higher local movements depend on the degree of openness of the landscape. Landscape context is hence a key issue in damselfly conservation planning and in maintaining ecological continuities, such as along greenways and blueways, and specifically the degree of landscape openness during pond creation.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4
Fig. 5

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Akasaka M, Takamura N, Mitsuhashi H, Kadono Y (2010) Effects of land use on aquatic macrophyte diversity and water quality of ponds. Freshwater Biol 55:909–922. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02334.x

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Allen KA, Thompson DJ (2010) Movement characteristics of the Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly, Ischnura pumilio. Insect Conserv Diver 3:5–14. doi:10.1111/j.1752-4598.2009.00070.x

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Allen KA, Thompson DJ (2014) Population size and survival estimates for the rare damselflies, Coenagrion mercuriale and Ischnura pumilio. Insect Conserv Diver 7:241–251. doi:10.1111/icad.12047

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Angélibert S, Giani N (2003) Dispersal characteristics of three odonate species in a patchy habitat. Ecography 26:13–20. doi:10.1034/j.1600-0587.2003.03372.x

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Angélibert A, Rosset V, Indermuehle N, Oertli B (2010) The pond biodiversity index “IBEM”: a new tool for the rapid assessment of biodiversity in ponds from Switzerland. Part 1. Index development. Limnetica 29:93–104

    Google Scholar 

  • Anholt BR, Vorburger C, Knaus P (2001) Mark–recapture estimates of daily survival rates of two damselflies (Coenagrion puella and Ischnura elegans). Can J Zool 79:895–899. doi:10.1139/cjz-79-5-895

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Arambourou H, Stoks R (2015) Combined effects of larval exposure to a heat wave and chlorpyrifos in northern and southern populations of the damselfly Ischnura elegans. Chemosphere 128:148–154. doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2015.01.044

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Askew RR (1982) Roosting and resting site selection by Coenagrionid damselflies. Adv Odonatol 1:1–8

    Google Scholar 

  • Askew RR (2004) The Dragonflies of Europe (revised edition). Harley Books, Colchester

    Google Scholar 

  • Baguette M, Blanchet S, Legrand D, Stevens VM, Turlure C (2013) Individual dispersal, landscape connectivity and ecological networks. Biol Rev 88:310–326. doi:10.1111/brv.12000

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Bennett AB, Gratton C (2012) Local and landscape scale variables impact parasitoid assemblages across an urbanization gradient. Landsc Urban Plan 104:26–33. doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2011.09.007

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Binzenhöfer B, Biedermann R, Settele J, Schröder B (2008) Connectivity compensates for low habitat quality and small patch size in the butterfly Cupido minimus. Ecol Res 23:259–269. doi:10.1007/s11284-007-0376-x

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Boothby J (1997) Pond conservation: towards a delineation of pondscape. Aquat Conserv 7:127–132. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1099-0755(199706)7:2<127::AID-AQC224>3.0.CO;2-6

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Buchwald R (1992) Vegetation and dragonfly fauna - characteristics and examples of biocenological field studies. Vegetatio 101:99–107. doi:10.1007/BF00033195

    Google Scholar 

  • Burnham KP, Anderson DR (2002) Model Selection and multimodel inference, a practical information-theoretic approach, 2nd edn. Springer, New York

    Google Scholar 

  • Chaput-Bardy A, Grégoire A, Baguette M, Pagano A, Secondi J (2010) Condition and phenotype-dependent dispersal in a damselfly, Calopteryx splendens. PLoS ONE 5:e10694. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010694

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Choquet R, Reboulet AM, Lebreton JD, Gimenez O, Pradel R (2005) U-CARE 2.2 user’s manual. CEFE, Montpellier

    Google Scholar 

  • Choquet R, Lebreton JD, Gimenez O, Reboulet AM, Pradel R (2009) U-CARE: Utilities for performing goodness of fit tests and manipulating CApture-REcapture data. Ecography 32:1071–1074. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0587.2009.05968.x

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Conrad KF, Willson KH, Harvey IF, Thomas CJ, Sherratt TN (1999) Dispersal characteristics of seven odonate species in an agricultural landscape. Ecography 22:524–531. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0587.1999.tb01282.x

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Conrad KF, Willson KH, Whitfield K, Harvey IF, Thomas CJ, Sherratt TN (2002) Characteristics of dispersing Ischnura elegans and Coenagrion puella (Odonata): age, sex, size, morph and ectoparasitism. Ecography 25:439–445. doi:10.1034/j.1600-0587.2002.250406.x

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Cooch EG, White GC (2013) Program MARK: A Gentle Introduction (edition 13). Colorado State University. http://www.phidot.org/software/mark/docs/book/. Accessed 09 Mar 2015

  • Cordero-Rivera A (1991) Drought-induced dispersal in Calopteryx haemorrhoidalis (Vander Linden) (Odonata: Calopterygidae). Opuscula Zoologica Fluminensia 64:1–6

    Google Scholar 

  • Cordero-Rivera A, Stoks R (2008) Mark-recapture studies and demography. In: Córdoba-Aguilar A (ed) Dragonflies & damselflies: model organisms for ecological and evolutionary research. Oxford University Press, New York, pp 7–20

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Cordero-Rivera A, Santolamazza-Carbone S, Utzeri C (1997) Male mating success in a natural population of Ischnura elegans (Vander Linden) (Odonata: Coenagrionidae). Odonatologica 26:459–465

    Google Scholar 

  • Cordero-Rivera A, Lorenzo-Carballa MO, Utzeri C, Vieira V (2005) Parthenogenetic Ischnura hastata (Say), widespread in the Azores (Zygoptera: Coenagrionidae). Odonatologica 34:1–9

    Google Scholar 

  • D’Amico F, Darblade S, Avignon S, Blanc-Manel S, Ormerod SJ (2004) Odonates as indicators of shallow lake restoration by liming: comparing adult and larval responses. Restor Ecol 12:439–446. doi:10.1111/j.1061-2971.2004.00319.x

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Davies BR, Biggs J, Lee JT, Thompson S (2004) Identifying optimum locations for new ponds. Aquat Conserv 14:5–24. doi:10.1002/aqc.574

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • De Block M, Stoks R (2004) Cannibalism-mediated life history plasticity to combined time and food stress. Oikos 106:587–597. doi:10.1111/j.0030-1299.2004.12974.x

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Della Bella V, Bazzanti M, Dowgiallo MG, Iberite M (2008) Macrophyte diversity and physico-chemical characteristics of Tyrrhenian coast ponds in central Italy: implications for conservation. Hydrobiologia 597:85–95. doi:10.1007/s10750-007-9216-9

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Dijkstra KDB (2006) Field guide to the dragonflies of Britain and Europe. British Wildlife, Gillingham

    Google Scholar 

  • Eason PK, Switzer PV (2006) Spatial learning in dragonflies. Int J Comp Psychol 19:268–281

    Google Scholar 

  • ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute) (2011) ArcMap 10.2. Redlands, California

  • Ewers RM, Didham RK (2006) Confounding factors in the detection of species responses to habitat fragmentation. Biol Rev 81:117–142. doi:10.1017/S1464793105006949

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Eycott AE, Stewart GB, Buyung-Ali LM, Bowler DE, Watts K, Pullin AS (2012) A meta-analysis on the impact of different matrix structures on species movement rates. Landscape Ecol 27:1263–1278. doi:10.1007/s10980-012-9781-9

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Fahrig L (2003) Effects of habitat fragmentation on biodiversity. Annu Rev Ecol Evol Syst 34:487–515. doi:10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.34.011802.132419

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Florencio M, Díaz-Paniagua C, Gómez-Rodríguez C, Serrano L (2014) Biodiversity patterns in a macroinvertebrate community of a temporary pond network. Insect Conserv Diver 7:4–21. doi:10.1111/icad.12029

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gagné SA, Fahrig L (2007) Effect of landscape context on anuran communities in breeding ponds in the National Capital Region, Canada. Landsc Ecol 22:205–215. doi:10.1007/s10980-006-9012-3

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gibbons LK, Reed JM, Chew FS (2002) Habitat requirements and local persistence of three damselfly species (odonata: coenagrionidae). J Insect Conserv 6:47–55. doi:10.1023/A:1015754015603

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Goertzen D, Suhling F (2013) Promoting dragonfly diversity in cities: major determinants and implications for urban pond design. J Insect Conserv 17:399–409. doi:10.1007/s10841-012-9522-z

    Google Scholar 

  • Grimm NB, Faeth SH, Golubiewski NE, Redman CL, Wu J, Bai X, Briggs JM (2008) Global change and the ecology of cities. Science 319:756–760. doi:10.1126/science.1150195

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Hafernik JE, Garrison RW (1986) Mating success and survival rate in a population of damselflies: results at variance with theory? Am Nat 128:353–365

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Halekoh U, Højsgaard S, Yan J (2006) The R package geepack for generalized estimating equations. J Stat Softw 15:1–11. doi:10.18637/jss.v015.i02

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hamer AJ, McDonnell MJ (2008) Amphibian ecology and conservation in the urbanising world: a review. Biol Conserv 141:2432–2449. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2008.07.020

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hamilton LD, Montgomerie RD (1989) Population demography and sex ratio in a Neotropical damselfly (Odonata: Coenagrionidae) in Costa Rica. J Trop Ecol 5:159–171. doi:10.1017/S0266467400003424

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Harabiš F (2016) The value of terrestrial ecotones as refuges for winter damselflies (Odonata: Lestidae). J Insect Conserv 20:971–977. doi:10.1007/s10841-016-9929-z

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Harms TM, Kinkead KE, Dinsmore SJ (2014) Evaluating the effects of landscape configuration on site occupancy and movement dynamics of odonates in Iowa. J Insect Conserv 18:307–315. doi:10.1007/s10841-014-9638-4

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Harrison SSC, Harris IT (2002) The effects of bankside management on chalk stream invertebrate communities. Freshwater Biol 47:2233–2245. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2427.2002.00939.x

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Harrison S (1994) Metapopulations and conservation. In: Edwards PJ, May RM, Webb NR (eds) Large-scale ecology and conservation biology. Blackwell, London, pp 111–128

    Google Scholar 

  • Hassall C (2014) The ecology and biodiversity of urban ponds. Wiley Interdiscip Rev Water 1:187–206. doi:10.1002/wat2.1014

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hill MJ, Biggs J, Thornhill I, Briers RA, Gledhill DG, White JC, Wood PJ, Hassall C (2016) Urban ponds as an aquatic biodiversity resource in modified landscapes. Glob Chang Biol. doi:10.1111/gcb.13401

    Google Scholar 

  • Hinnekint BON (1987) Population dynamics of Ischnura E. elegans (Vander Linden) (Insecta: Odonata) with special reference to morphological colour changes, female polymorphism, multiannual cycles and their influence on behaviour. Hydrobiologia 146:3–31. doi:10.1007/BF00007574

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Holdich DM, Tolba MR (1981) The effect of temperature and water quality on the in vitro development and survival of Asellus aquaticus (Crustacea: Isopoda) eggs. Hydrobiologia 78:227–236. doi:10.1007/BF00008519

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Horvitz DG, Thompson DJ (1952) A generalization of sampling without replacement from a finite universe. J Am Stat Assoc 47:663–685. doi:10.2307/2280784

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hykel M, Harabiš F, Dolný A (2016) Assessment of the quality of the terrestrial habitat of the threatened dragonfly, Sympetrum depressiusculum (Odonata: Libellulidae). Eur J Entomol 113:476–481. doi:10.14411/eje.2016.062

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Indermuehle N, Angélibert S, Rosset V, Oertli B (2010) The pond biodiversity index “IBEM”: a new tool for the rapid assessment of biodiversity in ponds from Switzerland. Part 2. Method description and examples of application. Limnetica 29:105–120

    Google Scholar 

  • Jonsen ID, Taylor PD (2000) Fine-scale movement behaviors of calopterygid damselflies are influenced by landscape structure: an experimental manipulation. Oikos 88:553–562. doi:10.1034/j.1600-0706.2000.880312.x

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Katayama N, Osawa T, Amano T, Kusumoto Y (2015) Are both agricultural intensification and farmland abandonment threats to biodiversity? A test with bird communities in paddy-dominated landscapes. Agr Ecosyst Environ 214:21–30. doi:10.1016/j.agee.2015.08.014

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Keller D, Holderegger R (2013) Damselflies use different movement strategies for short- and long-distance dispersal. Insect Conserv Diver 6:590–597. doi:10.1111/icad.12016

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Keller D, Van Strien MJ, Holderegger R (2012) Do landscape barriers affect functional connectivity of populations of an endangered damselfly? Freshwater Biol 57:1373–1384. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2427.2012.02797.x

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kindlmann P, Aviron S, Burel F (2005) When is landscape matrix important for determining animal fluxes between resource patches? Ecol Complex 2:150–158. doi:10.1016/j.ecocom.2004.11.007

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Krauss J, Steffan-Dewenter I, Müller CB, Tscharntke T (2005) Relative importance of resource quantity, isolation and habitat quality for landscape distribution of a monophagous butterfly. Ecography 28:465–474. doi:10.1111/j.0906-7590.2005.04201.x

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Mandiki SNM, Gillardin V, Martens K, Ercken D, De Roeck E, De Bie T, Declerck SAS, De Meester L, Brasseur C, Van der Heiden E, Schippo ML, Kestemont P (2014) Effect of land use on pollution status and risk of fish endocrine disruption in small farmland ponds. Hydrobiologia 723:103–120. doi:10.1007/s10750-013-1641-3

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Matushkina NA, Gorb S (2002) A check-list of substrates for endophytic oviposition of some European dragonflies (Insecta: Odonata). Kharkov Entomol Soc Gazette 10:108–118

    Google Scholar 

  • McCauley SJ (2006) The effects of dispersal and recruitment limitation on community structure of odonates in artificial ponds. Ecography 29:585–595. doi:10.1111/j.0906-7590.2006.04787.x

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • McPeek MA, Peckarsky BL (1998) Life histories and the strengths of species interactions: combining mortality, growth, and fecundity effects. Ecology 79:867–879. doi:10.1890/0012-9658(1998)079[0867:LHATSO]2.0.CO;2

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • McPeek MA, Schrot AK, Brown JM (1996) Adaptation to predators in a new community: swimming performance and predator avoidance in damselflies. Ecology 77:617–629. doi:10.2307/2265635

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Michaletz PH, Doisy KE, Rabeni CF (2005) Influences of productivity, vegetation, and fish on macroinvertebrate abundance and size in Midwestern USA impoundments. Hydrobiologia 543:147–157. doi:10.1007/s10750-004-6952-y

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Moravec F, Skorikova B (1998) Amphibians and larvae of aquatic insects as new paratenic hosts of Anguillicola crassus (Nematoda: Dracunculoidea), a swimbladder parasite of eels. Dis Aquat Organ 34:217–222. doi:10.3354/dao034217

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Noble A, Hassall C (2015) Poor ecological quality of urban ponds in northern England: causes and consequences. Urban Ecosyst 18:649–662. doi:10.1007/s11252-014-0422-8

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Nowicki P, Vrabec V, Binzenhöfer B, Feil J, Zakšek B, Hovestadt T, Settele J (2014) Butterfly dispersal in inhospitable matrix: rare, risky, but long-distance. Landscape Ecol 29:401–412. doi:10.1007/s10980-013-9971-0

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Oertli B, Auderset Joye D, Castella E, Juge R, Cambin D, Lachavanne JB (2002) Does size matter? The relationship between pond area and biodiversity. Biol Conserv 104:59–70. doi:10.1016/S0006-3207(01)00154-9

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Oertli B, Auderset Joye D, Castella E, Juge R, Lehmann A, Lachavanne JB (2005) PLOCH: a standardized method for sampling and assessing the biodiversity in ponds. Aquat Conserv 15:665–679. doi:10.1002/aqc.744

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Parr MJ (1969) Population studies of some Zygopteran dragonflies (Odonata). PhD Thesis, University of Salford, Manchester

  • Parr MJ (1973) Ecological studies of Ischnura elegans (Vander Linden) (Zygoptera: Coenagrionidae). II. Survivorship, local movements, and dispersal. Odonatologica 2:159–174

    Google Scholar 

  • Parris KM (2006) Urban amphibian assemblages as metacommunities. J Anim Ecol 75:757–764. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2656.2006.01096.x

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Pieczyńska E, Kolodziejczyk A, Rybak JI (1999) The responses of littoral invertebrates to eutrophication-linked changes in plant communities. Hydrobiologia 391:9–21. doi:10.1023/A:1003503731720

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Pither J, Taylor PD (1998) An experimental assessment of landscape connectivity. Oikos 83:166–174. doi:10.2307/3546558

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ponge JF, Gillet S, Dubs F, Fedoroff E, Haese L, Sousa JP, Lavelle P (2003) Collembolan communities as bioindicators of land use intensification. Soil Biol Biochem 35:813–826. doi:10.1016/S0038-0717(03)00108-1

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Pradel R, Gimenez O, Lebreton JD (2005) Principles and interest of GOF tests for multistate capture–recapture models. Anim Biodiv Conserv 28:189–204

    Google Scholar 

  • Prevedello JA, Vieira MV (2010) Does the type of matrix matter? A quantitative review of the evidence. Biodivers Conserv 19:1205–1223. doi:10.1007/s10531-009-9750-z

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • R Development Core Team (2013) R: a language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. http://www.R-project.org. Accessed 26 May 2013

  • Raebel EM, Merckx T, Feber RE, Riordan P, Thompson DJ, Macdonald DW (2012) Multi-scale effects of farmland management on dragonfly and damselfly assemblages of farmland ponds. Agr Ecosyst Environ 161:80–87. doi:10.1016/j.agee.2012.07.015

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Regosin JV, Windmiller BS, Homan RN, Reed JM (2005) Variation in terrestrial habitat use by four pool-breeding amphibian species. J Wildlife Manage 69:1481–1493. doi:10.2193/0022-541X(2005)69[1481:VITHUB]2.0.CO;2

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rey-Benayas JM, Scheiner SM, Sanchez-Colomer MG, Levassor C (1999) Commonness and rarity: theory and application of a new model to Mediterranean montane grasslands. Conserv Ecol 3(1):5. http://www.consecol.org/vol3/iss1/art5/. Accessed 03 July 2016

  • Roland J, Keyghobadi N, Fownes S (2000) Alpine Parnassius butterfly dispersal: effects of landscape and population size. Ecology 81:1642–1653. doi:10.2307/177313

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rouquette JR, Thompson DJ (2007a) Patterns of movement and dispersal in an endangered damselfly and the consequences for its management. J Appl Ecol 44:692–701. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2664.2007.01284.x

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rouquette JR, Thompson DJ (2007b) Roosting site selection in the endangered damselfly, Coenagrion mercuriale, and implications for habitat design. J Insect Conserv 11:187–193. doi:10.1007/s10841-006-9030-0

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ruggiero A, Céréghino R, Figuerola J, Marty P, Angélibert S (2008) Farm ponds make a contribution to the biodiversity of aquatic insects in a French agricultural landscape. C R Biol 331:298–308. doi:10.1016/j.crvi.2008.01.009

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Samejima Y, Tsubaki Y (2010) Body temperature and body size affect flight performance in a damselfly. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 64:685–692. doi:10.1007/s00265-009-0886-3

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sato M, Kohmatsu Y, Yuma M, Tsubaki Y (2008) Population genetic differentiation in three sympatric damselfly species in a highly fragmented urban landscape (Zygoptera: Coenagrionidae). Odonatologica 37:131–144

    Google Scholar 

  • Sattler T, Borcard D, Arlettaz R, Bontadina F, Legendre P, Obrist MK, Moretti M (2010) Spider, bee, and bird communities in cities are shaped by environmental control and high stochasticity. Ecology 91:3343–3353. doi:10.1890/09-1810.1

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Sebastián-González E, Green AJ (2014) Habitat Use by Waterbirds in Relation to Pond Size, Water Depth, and Isolation: Lessons from a Restoration in Southern Spain. Restor Ecol 22:311–318. doi:10.1111/rec.12078

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sokolovska N, Rowe L, Johansson F (2000) Fitness and body size in mature odonates. Ecol Entomol 25:239–248. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2311.2000.00251.x

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Solimini AG, Della Bella V, Bazzanti M (2005) Macroinvertebrate size spectra of Mediterranean ponds with differing hydroperiod length. Aquat Conserv 15:601–611. doi:10.1002/aqc.747

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sternberg K, Buchwald R (1999) Die Libellen Baden-Württembergs Band 1. Ulmer, Stuttgart

    Google Scholar 

  • Stoks R, De Block M, Slos S, Van Doorslaer W, Rolff J (2006) Time constraints mediate predator-induced plasticity in immune function, condition, and life history. Ecology 87:809–815. doi:10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[809:TCMPPI]2.0.CO;2

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Thompson DJ (1978) The natural prey of larvae of the damselfly, Ischnura elegans (Odonata: Zygoptera). Freshwater Biol 8:377–384. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2427.1978.tb01458.x

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Tichanek F, Tropek R (2015) Conservation value of post-mining headwaters: drainage channels at a lignite spoil heap harbour threatened stream dragonflies. J Insect Conserv 19:975–985. doi:10.1007/s10841-015-9814-1

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Tichanek F, Tropek R (2016a) Sex-specific spatial patterns in the threatened damselfly Coenagrion ornatum: implications for the species’ conservation and monitoring. J Insect Conserv 20:1107–1112. doi:10.1007/s10841-016-9933-3

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Tichanek F, Tropek R (2016b) The endangered damselfly Coenagrion ornatum in post-mining streams: population size, habitat requirements and restoration. J Insect Conserv 20:701–710. doi:10.1007/s10841-016-9902-x

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Van Noordwijk M (1978) A mark-recapture study of coexisting zygopteran populations. Odonatologica 7:353–374

    Google Scholar 

  • Vieira V, Cordero-Rivera A (2015) As libélulas dos Açores e Madeira. Amigos dos Açores—Associação Ecológica, São Miguel

    Google Scholar 

  • Watts PC, Rouquette JR, Saccheri IJ, Kemp SJ, Thompson DJ (2004) Molecular and ecological evidence for small-scale isolation by distance in an endangered damselfly, Coenagrion mercuriale. Mol Ecol 13:2931–2945. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2004.02300.x

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Wellenreuther M, Sánchez-Guillén RA, Cordero-Rivera A, Svensson EI, Hansson B (2011) Environmental and climatic determinants of molecular diversity and genetic population structure in a coenagrionid damselfly. PLoS One 6:e20440. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020440

    Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Williams P, Whitfield M, Biggs J, Bray S, Fox G, Nicolet P, Sear D (2003) Comparative biodiversity of rivers, streams, ditches and ponds in an agricultural landscape in Southern England. Biol Conserv 115:329–341. doi:10.1016/S0006-3207(03)00153-8

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wood PJ, Greenwood MT, Agnew MD (2003) Pond biodiversity and habitat loss in the UK. Area 35:206–216. doi:10.1111/1475-4762.00249

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the Seine-Normandy Water Agency and the Normandy Region for their financial contributions. We are also grateful to the Seine-Maritime Hunter Federation for its assistance in collection of the data. M. Le Gall was supported by a Ph. D. regional grant provided by Normandy Region (France) through the GRR-TERA (Territory–Environment–Risk–Agronomy) and particularly, its research network SCALE (SCience Applied to Environment). Pr. Michaël Aubert and Dr. A. Husté (ECODIV URA IRSTEA/EA 1293) were the Ph. D. co-supervisors. We also thank Sophie Domingues-Montanari for the review of the English language.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Normandie University, UNIROUEN, IRSTEA, ECODIV, 76000, Rouen, France

    Mickaël Le Gall, Audrey Chaput-Bardy & Aurélie Husté

Authors
  1. Mickaël Le Gall
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Audrey Chaput-Bardy
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Aurélie Husté
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Mickaël Le Gall.

Electronic supplementary material

Below is the link to the electronic supplementary material.

Supplementary material (DOCX 62 KB)

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Gall, M.L., Chaput-Bardy, A. & Husté, A. Context-dependent local movements of the blue-tailed damselfly, Ischnura elegans: effects of pond characteristics and the landscape matrix. J Insect Conserv 21, 243–256 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-017-9971-5

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-017-9971-5

Keywords

Search

Navigation