Carabid communities (Coleoptera, Carabidae) in differently managed forage legume stands in the Podpoľanie region (Central Slovakia)

Abstract

The paper presents the results of studies on the communities of Carabids from the land registry area of the Očová village (Podpoľanie region, Central Slovakia). The research was carried out in two consecutive vegetation periods on two different agricultural plots with alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.): the first of them (locality Nadhájniková) was managed intensively, and the second one (locality Koteľnice) was characterized by a nature-friendly, low-input agro-environmental management form, without application of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. On the studied sites, the observed species composition of Carabidae was similar. Neverthe-less, the higher total number of individuals and the higher species richness were typical for the nature-friendly managed plot in Koteľnice. On both plots, the highest abundances were reached in Poecilus cupreus, Pterostichus melanarius and Pseudoophonus rufipes. On the intensively managed plot in Nadhájniková, however, the abundances of all these species were markedly lower. Our results suggest that the studied component of epigeic fauna finds better ecological conditions on the sites with the nature-friendly management form.

Morphometric variation of Abax parallelepipedus (Piller & Mitterpacher, 1783), (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in rural – urban areas

“…Several studies confirmed our findings (Naidenko and Grechkanev, 2002;Weller and Ganzhorn, 2003;Timofeeva and Savosin, 2009;Gordienko and Sukhodolskaya, 2011;Kalivoda et al, 2011;Sukhodolskaya, 2011;2013, 2014, 2016Vician et al, 2018).…”

Impact of Different Methods of Wheat Cultivation on the Occurrence of Carabidae Family Representatives (Carabidae, Coleoptera)

“…The data obtained by us did not confirm the differences in the dominance of species in ecological and conventional agriculture, which could be caused by the surrounding agricultural areas with conventional agricultural management and the termination of the ECO research area in 2018. Vician et al (2010) identified eudominant species of P. melanarius and P. rufipes on different management of agricultural areas, without observing significant differences in dominance. By evaluating the frequency of occurrence of individual species, we conclude that the P. melanarius and P. rufipes species were constant during the three-year monitored period.…”

Morphological variability ofBembidion varium(Coleoptera, Carabidae) in gradient of soil salinity

“…Morphological variability within populations is a reflection of the plasticity of the development of a species, and in different populations is a measure of adaptive plasticity of a species (Kawano, 2006(Kawano, , 2016. There are articles devoted to the influence of the type of food objects (Bonal et al, 2011;Martynov and Brygadyrenko, 2018;Martinková et al, 2019), the temperature and nature of the substrate (Ernsting and Isaaks, 1997), competition (Okuzaki and Sota, 2018), biogeography (influence of altitude, climate) and anthropogenic factors (Vician et al, 2018;Sowa and Skalski, 2019) on the morphological variability of beetles. Little research has been devoted to the influence of environmental factors on the morphological variability of ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae).…”