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dc.contributor.authorZabala Albizua, Francisco Javier
dc.contributor.authorDíaz Martín, Beatriz
dc.contributor.authorSaloña Bordas, Marta Inés ORCID
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-17T09:13:36Z
dc.date.available2015-12-17T09:13:36Z
dc.date.issued2014-06-11
dc.identifier.citationPLOS ONE 9(6) : (2014) // Article ID e99668es
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10810/16495
dc.description.abstractBlowflies are insects of forensic interest as they may indicate characteristics of the environment where a body has been laying prior to the discovery. In order to estimate changes in community related to landscape and to assess if blowfly species can be used as indicators of the landscape where a corpse has been decaying, we studied the blowfly community and how it is affected by landscape in a 7,000 km(2) region during a whole year. Using baited traps deployed monthly we collected 28,507 individuals of 10 calliphorid species, 7 of them well represented and distributed in the study area. Multiple Analysis of Variance found changes in abundance between seasons in the 7 analyzed species, and changes related to land use in 4 of them (Calliphora vomitoria, Lucilia ampullacea, L. caesar and L. illustris). Generalised Linear Model analyses of abundance of these species compared with landscape descriptors at different scales found only a clear significant relationship between summer abundance of C. vomitoria and distance to urban areas and degree of urbanisation. This relationship explained more deviance when considering the landscape composition at larger geographical scales (up to 2,500 m around sampling site). For the other species, no clear relationship between land uses and abundance was found, and therefore observed changes in their abundance patterns could be the result of other variables, probably small changes in temperature. Our results suggest that blowfly community composition cannot be used to infer in what kind of landscape a corpse has decayed, at least in highly fragmented habitats, the only exception being the summer abundance of C. vomitoria.es
dc.description.sponsorshipField work and technicians assistance was supported by a research project funded by the Basque Government and the University of the Basque Country. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.es
dc.language.isoenges
dc.publisherPublic Library Sciencees
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesses
dc.subjectdiptera calliphoridaees
dc.subjectarthoropod successiones
dc.subjectinsect successiones
dc.subjectcarriones
dc.subjecthabitates
dc.subjectflieses
dc.subjecturbanes
dc.subjectdescompositiones
dc.subjectentomologyes
dc.subjectpreferencees
dc.titleSeasonal Blowfly Distribution and Abundance in Fragmented Landscapes. Is It Useful in Forensic Inference about Where a Corpse Has Been Decaying?es
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlees
dc.rights.holder© 2014 Zabala et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.es
dc.relation.publisherversionhttp://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0099668#abstract0es
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0099668
dc.departamentoesZoología y biología celular animales_ES
dc.departamentoeuZoologia eta animalia zelulen biologiaes_ES
dc.subject.categoriaAGRICULTURAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
dc.subject.categoriaMEDICINE
dc.subject.categoriaBIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY


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