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Bakony Region and Lake Balaton, but others
demonstrate that landscape is more diverse in the
Mecsek Mts., at Lake Tisza and around Danube River.
These differences could be attributed the different
sensitivity of the indices to frequency of rare and
common habitats.
Pearson’s correlation analyses show very strict
significant positive relation (R=0.938, p=0.006)
between Menhinick diversity-indices of mosquito
fauna and diversity of the humid habitats in the
landscape structure. Among other indices we did not
reveal relations or revealed not significant relations. In
connection with this we have to note that strict
significant positive relation was detected at Menhinick
diversity-index which is very sensitive to the species
richness (Washington, 1984).
Our results show that species richness of the local
faunas at the studied scale depends on the diversity of
the humid habitats. It was confirmed by the result of
the linear regression analysis too (Figure 7).
Figure 7 Linear regression analysis of the diversity-indices
shows that diversity of the local faunas depends on the
diversity of the humid habitats
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Conclusions
The Hungarian mosquito fauna including 50 species
has to consider as a species rich fauna in comparison
to the area, macroclimate and geographical location of
the country. Although, the cover of the natural and
semi-natural habitats is relatively high (31%) in
Hungary this species richness is higher than that could
be predicted based on climatic and zoogeographical
circumstances of the region. Our results show that
high diversity of the Hungarian mosquito fauna
originated from the fact that relevant geographical
range, the Carpathian Basin, is characterized by higher
landscape diversity in the humid habitats than the
surrounding areas. Take into consideration that Bueno
Marí and Jiménez-Peydró (2011) revealed similar
relations in Eastern-Spain we could treat examination
of ?-, ß- and ?-diversity of mosquitoes at large scale as
a perspective project.
Author’s Contributions
ZK and ST collected and systematized data, KZ performed the
statistical analyses and the manuscript. ST read and approved
the final manuscript.
Acknowledgements
Authors would like to express their special thanks to Dr
Norbert Bauer for his help in the field examinations. Our
special thanks go to Dr Szilárd Szabó for the GIS-analyses of
the habitat data and to Mr András Márkus for the English
revision of the manuscript.
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