The Bioindication Evaluation of Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in Three Forest Biotopes in the Southern Part of Central Slovakia

Vladimír Langraf; Kornélia Petrovičová; Stanislav David; Janka Nozdrovická; František Petrovič; Janka Schlarmannová

doi:10.2478/eko-2019-0003

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The Bioindication Evaluation of Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in Three Forest Biotopes in the Southern Part of Central Slovakia

Ekológia (Bratislava)

Volume 38 (2019): Issue 1 (March 2019)

By: Vladimír Langraf, Kornélia Petrovičová, Stanislav David, Janka Nozdrovická, František Petrovič and Janka Schlarmannová

Open Access

|Mar 2019

Abstract

Ground beetles (Carabidae) were used to evaluate the bio indication environmental incidence. The ground beetle material (2,341 individuals, 30 species) was collected between 2015 and 2017 using pitfall traps in three types of forest habitats with different disturbance rates. The comparison of carabid’s sensitivity as bio indicators has been evaluated by using three methods: (i) community index of ground beetles (IKS), (ii) ellipsoid biovolume (EV) and (iii) flight ability of the carabids. Using the Monte Carlo permutation test, we did not record the statistically significant changes in IKS values, nor does a change in the representation of carabids in the bioindicative group A, E and R. On the contrary, we confirmed the statistically significant changes in the average values of ellipsoid biovolume in biotopes and between biotopes (the Friedman and Kruskal-Wallis test -ANOVA (p-value = 0.00)). A higher number of macropterous species were recorded in biotopes with high disturbance as compared to the biotopes with low disturbance.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/eko-2019-0003 | Journal eISSN: 1337-947X | Journal ISSN: 1335-342X

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Language: English

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Published on: Mar 16, 2019

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Keywords:

carabids,

bio indicators,

community index of the ground beetles,

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Ecology,

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Environmental chemistry,

Geosciences,

Geography

© 2019 Vladimír Langraf, Kornélia Petrovičová, Stanislav David, Janka Nozdrovická, František Petrovič, Janka Schlarmannová, published by Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Landscape Ecology
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