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Local and Landscape Effects on Carrion-Associated Rove Beetle (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) Communities in German Forests Supplementary Materials Local and Landscape Effects on Carrion-Associated Rove Beetle (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) Communities in German Forests Sandra Weithmann1*, Jonas Kuppler1, Gregor Degasperi2, Sandra Steiger3, Manfred Ayasse1, Christian von Hoermann4 1 Institute of Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation Genomics, University of Ulm, 89069 Ulm, Germany; [email protected] (J.K.), [email protected] (M.A.) 2 Richard-Wagnerstraße 9, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria; [email protected] (G.D.) 3 Department of Evolutionary Animal Ecology, University of Bayreuth, 95447 Bayreuth, Germany; [email protected] (S.S.) 4 Department of Conservation and Research, Bavarian Forest National Park, 94481 Grafenau, Germany; [email protected] (C.v.H.) * Correspondence: [email protected] (S.W.) The supplementary material is structured in sections Materials and methods and Results. 1 Materials and methods Table S1: Environmental variables included in the analyses undertaken on the BExIS platform (Biodiversity Exploratories Information System, https://www.bexis.uni-jena.de). Variable Variable Categories or description of unit Data source information type variable region categorial Schwäbische Alb (ALB), Hainich- - ID: 20826, version: 1.14.10, Dün (HAI), Schorfheide-Chorin owner: Nieschulze, Schulze, (SCH) Fischer, Ayasse, Weisser, Ostrowski, König-Ries SMI index continuous silvicultural management intensity - ID: 17746, version: 1.2.2; (SMI) index (from 0 to 1) owner: Schall & Ammer 0 = undisturbed 1 = disturbed mineral soil continuous pH-measurement in the mineral - ID: 19067, version: 4.1.2; pH forest soil owner: Schöning, Klötzing, (0 - 10 cm) Schäfer, Gan, Schrumpf, Trumbore soil continuous forest soil temperature at 10 °C ID: 19007, version: 1.0.5; temperature centimeters below surface owner: Wöllauer, Hänsel, Nauss, Forteva silt content continuous amount of medium silt (particle g/kg ID: 14686, version: 1.9.6; size 0.0063 - 0.02 mm) in forest soil soil owner: Schöning, Solly, samples Klötzing, Trumbore, Schrumpf understory continuous forest understory proportion up to - ID: 17066, version: 1.1.3; proportion 2 m above the ground owner: Schall & Ammer Shannon continuous Shannon diversity index for all - ID: 16806, version: 1.2.2; plants vascular plants in forests (based on owner: Grassein & Fischer vegetation relevés on all 400 m² forest sites by visual estimation) litter cover continuous forest litter cover in summer % ID: 6240, version: 1.6.16; owner: Boch, Socher, Mueller, Prati, Fischer deadwood continuous forest deadwood cover % ID: 6240, version: 1.6.16; cover owner: Boch, Socher, Mueller, Prati, Fischer 2 Results Table S2: List of species of all collected rove beetles on decomposing piglet cadavers at 65 forest study sites in three distinct study regions in descending order by total abundance. Additional information for each species is given for subfamily, size class, ecological niche, and food preference [1–9]. Species name Subfamily Size Ecological Food Total Abundance in Abundance in Abundance in Abbreviation (author, year) class niche abundance region 'ALB' region 'HAI' region 'SCH' for analyzes Tachinus pallipes Tachyporinae III de, sap z 404 182 160 62 T_pal (Gravenhorst, 1806) Bisnius fimetarius Staphylininae III de, cp, fu z 338 132 161 45 B_fim (Gravenhorst, 1802) Philonthus addendus Staphylininae IV de z 310 12 16 282 P_add (Sharp, 1867) Anotylus mutator Oxytelinae II de, cp sa (?) 206 79 127 0 A_mut (Lohse, 1963) Philonthus succicola Staphylininae V de, cp z 185 7 4 174 P_suc (Thomson, 1860) Tachinus laticollis Tachyporinae II de, sap z 166 133 26 7 T_lat (Gravenhorst, 1802) Philonthus tenuicornis Staphylininae IV de, cp z 124 6 5 113 P_ten (Mulsant & Rey, 1853) Ontholestes tessellatus Staphylininae V de, cp, ca z 123 73 21 29 O_tes (Geoffroy, 1785) Philonthus splendens Staphylininae V de, cp, sap z 109 2 0 107 P_spl (Fabricius, 1793) Philonthus decorus Staphylininae V de, hyg, mu z 91 25 25 41 P_dec (Gravenhorst, 1802) Philonthus marginatus Staphylininae IV de, cp z 88 13 0 75 P_mar (Müller, 1764) Megarthrus depressus Proteininae I de, cp, hu, fu sa, m 64 60 2 2 M_dep (Paykull, 1789) (?) 3 Ontholestes murinus Staphylininae V de, ca z 61 1 0 60 O_mur (Linné, 1758) Omalium septentrionis Omaliinae II de, hu, fu z (?) 41 34 7 0 O_sep (Thomson, 1857) Ocypus olens Staphylininae V hyg, hu z 30 0 0 30 O_ole (Müller, 1764) Atheta monticola Aleocharinae I de, sap z (?) 27 14 12 1 A_mon (Thomson, 1852) Philonthus nitidus Staphylininae V de, cp z 20 0 0 20 P_nit (Fabricius, 1787) Quedius cinctus Staphylininae IV de, cp z 15 13 2 0 Q_cin (Paykull, 1790) Atheta dadopora Aleocharinae I myc, st, de z (?) 15 11 1 3 A_dad (Thomson, 1867) Aleochara curtula Aleocharinae II-IV de, cp pa, z 14 4 1 9 A_cur (Goeze, 1777) Atheta crassicornis Aleocharinae II de, sap z (?) 14 6 7 1 A_cra (Fabricius, 1793) Lordithon lunulatus Tachyporinae III myc, fu z 14 0 13 1 L_lun (Linné, 1760) Staphylinus erythropterus Staphylininae V hyg, hu z 14 0 0 14 S_ery (Linné, 1758) Atheta castanoptera Aleocharinae II de, myc, fu z (?) 13 9 4 0 A_cas (Mannerheim, 1830) Megarthrus stercorarius Proteininae I de, cp, fu sa, m 11 11 0 0 M_ste (Mulsant & Rey, 1878) (?) Philonthus varians Staphylininae III de, cp z 11 1 1 9 P_var (Paykull, 1789) Atheta fungi Aleocharinae I de, hu z 10 10 0 0 A_fun.1 (Gravenhorst, 1806) 4 Ocypus tenebricosus Staphylininae V hyg, hu z 10 10 0 0 O_ten (Gravenhorst, 1846) Atheta hansseni Aleocharinae I de, fu z (?) 10 7 3 0 A_han (Strand, 1943) Atheta britanniae (Bernhauer Aleocharinae I de, myc z (?) 9 9 0 0 A_bri & Scheerpeltz, 1926) Proteinus brachypterus Proteininae I de, myc, hu sa, m 9 9 0 0 P_bra (Fabricius, 1792) (?) Atheta sodalis Aleocharinae I de, myc, fu z (?) 8 7 1 0 A_sod (Erichson, 1837) Megarthrus nitidulus Proteininae I de, cp, fu sa, m 8 8 0 0 M_nit (Kraatz, 1857) (?) Omalium rivulare Omaliinae II de, sap, fu sa 8 0 8 0 O_riv (Paykull, 1789) Quedius lateralis Staphylininae V de, sap, su, z 8 6 1 1 Q_lat (Gravenhorst, 1806) fu Atheta cinnamoptera Aleocharinae I de, cp z (?) 7 4 3 0 A_cin (Thomson, 1856) Quedius lucidulus Staphylininae III de, hu z 7 7 0 0 Q_luc (Erichson, 1839) Tachinus proximus Tachyporinae III/IV de, cp z 7 7 0 0 T_pro (Kraatz, 1855) Atheta laevana Aleocharinae I de, cp, si z (?) 6 4 2 0 A_lae (Mulsant & Rey, 1852) Anotylus sculpturatus Oxytelinae II de, cp sa 5 3 2 0 A_scu (Gravenhorst, 1806) Atheta picipes Aleocharinae I de, fu, co z (?) 5 4 0 1 A_pic (Thomson, 1856) Pella cognata Aleocharinae III myr, hu sa (?) 5 5 0 0 P_cog (Märkel, 1842) 5 Atheta intermedia Aleocharinae II de, cp z (?) 4 0 4 0 A_int (Thomson, 1852) Rugilus rufipes Paederinae III de, hyg z 4 1 1 2 R_ruf (Germar, 1836) Atheta boreella Aleocharinae I de, hyg z (?) 4 2 0 2 A_bor (Brundin, 1948) Omalium rugatum Omaliinae II de z (?) 3 3 0 0 O_rug (Mulsant & Rey, 1880) Philonthus politus Staphylininae IV/V de, ca sa (?) 3 0 0 3 P_pol (Linné, 1758) Platystethus arenarius Oxytelinae II/III de, cp z 3 3 0 0 P_are (Geoffroy, 1785) Quedius mesomelinus Staphylininae IV de, ni z 3 0 3 0 Q_mes skoraszewskyi (Korge, 1960) Aleochara stichai Aleocharinae II de pa, z 2 2 0 0 A_sti (Likovsky, 1965) Atheta ravilla Aleocharinae I de, fu, ni z (?) 2 2 0 0 A_rav (Erichson, 1839) Ocalea picata Aleocharinae II/III de, hyg, mu z (?) 2 2 0 0 O_pic (Stephens, 1832) Othius subuliformis Staphylininae III de, hu sa, z 2 2 0 0 O_sub (Stephens, 1833) (?) Placusa tachyporoides Aleocharinae I co m 2 2 0 0 P_tac (Waltl, 1838) Xantholinus laevigatus Staphylininae IV de, hyg z 2 2 0 0 X_lae (Jacobsen, 1849) Bisnius pseudoparcus Staphylininae I de z 2 0 0 2 B_pse (Brunne, 1976) 6 Acrotona parvula Aleocharinae I de, cp z (?) 1 0 0 1 A_par (Mannerheim, 1830) Aleochara funebris Aleocharinae II de pa, z 1 1 0 0 A_fun (Wollaston, 1864) Aleochara intricata Aleocharinae II/III de, sap pa, z 1 0 0 1 A_intr (Mannerheim, 1830) Anotylus inustus Oxytelinae II de, cp, xer sa, z 1 1 0 0 A_inu (Gravenhorst, 1806) (?) Anthobium atrocephalum Omaliinae II de, hu, fu sa, z 1 1 0 0 A_atr (Gyllenhal, 1827) (?) Atheta gagatina Aleocharinae I de, myc, fu z (?) 1 0 0 1 A_gag (Baudi di Selve, 1848) Atheta paracrassicornis Aleocharinae I de, myc z (?) 1 1 0 0 A_par.1 (Brundin, 1954) Autalia longicornis Aleocharinae I de, myc z (?) 1 1 0 0 A_lon (Scheerpeltz, 1947) Geostiba circellaris Aleocharinae I hyg, hu z (?) 1 1 0 0 G_cir (Gravenhorst, 1806) Lathrobium brunnipes Paederinae IV de, hyg z 1 0 0 1 L_bru (Fabricius, 1793) Megarthrus denticollis Proteininae I de, cp, hu sa, m 1 1 0 0 M_den (Beck, 1817) (?) Megarthrus prosseni Proteininae I de, cp, fu sa, m 1 0 0 1 M_pro (Schatzmayr, 1904) (?) Ocypus brunnipes Staphylininae V de, hu, hyg z 1 0 0 1 O_bru (Fabricius, 1781) Oxypoda brevicornis Aleocharinae I/II z (?) z 1 1 0 0 O_bre (Stephens, 1832) Oxytelus laqueatus Oxytelinae II/III de, cp sa 1 0 1 0 O_laq (Marsham, 1802) 7 Pella lugens Aleocharinae II myr sa 1 1 0 0 P_lug (Gravenhorst, 1802) Philonthus laminatus Staphylininae IV de, sap z 1 0 0 1 P_lam (Creutzer, 1799) Quedius fuliginosus Staphylininae V de, hu, hyg z 1 0 0 1 Q_ful (Gravenhorst, 1802) Rugilus mixtus Paederinae III de z 1 1 0 0 R_mix (Lohse, 1956) Tachinus rufipes Tachyporinae III de, sap z 1 1 0 0 T_ruf (Linné, 1758) Bolitochara tecta Aleocharinae III myc, si, pp, z 1 0 1 0 B_tec (Assing, 2014) bo, xde Gyrohypnus punctulatus Staphylininae III/IV de z 1 0 1 0 G_pun (Paykull, 1789) Pella humeralis Aleocharinae III myr, hu sa, z 1 1 0 0 P_hum (Gravenhorst, 1806) (?) Plataraea brunnea
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