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Agriculturae Conspectus Scientificus, Vol. 81 No. 2, 2016.

Original scientific paper

The Ground Beetle Fauna (Coleoptera) of Apple Orchard in Croatia

Ivana Pajač Živković orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-0775-7327 ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Agriculture, Department for Agricultural Zoology, Svetošimunska cesta 25, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Božena Barić orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-0708-4257 ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Agriculture, Department for Agricultural Zoology, Svetošimunska cesta 25, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Tomislav Kos orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-1445-4156 ; University of Zadar, Department of Ecology, Agronomy and Aquaculture, Mihovila Pavlinovića 1, HR-23000 Zadar, Croatia
Helena Suda ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Agriculture, Department for Agricultural Zoology, Svetošimunska cesta 25, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Tomislav Jemrić orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-6672-1834 ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Pomology, Svetošimunska 25, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Mladen Fruk orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-6989-1337 ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Pomology, Svetošimunska 25, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Darija Lemić orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-1175-3716 ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Agriculture, Department for Agricultural Zoology, Svetošimunska cesta 25, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia

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Abstract

The ground beetle fauna was studied in IPM apple orchard in northwest part of Croatia (Krapina). Carabids were sampled by pitfall trapping in the year of 2015 from July 1st until October 15th. A total of 183 individuals belonging to 17 species and 9 genera were collected. The most abundant species, with the proportion of almost 55% in the total catch, was Pterostichus melas melas Creutzer, 1799 followed by Carabus coriaceus coriaceus Linne, 1758 (18.03%) and Calathus fuscipes graecus Dejean, 1831 (4.92%). This three species account for about 80% of the total catch. The apple orchard ground beetle community can be characterized as having relatively low diversity, dominated by nonspecific (eurytopic) species of open habitats which are highly tolerant to anthropogenic influence. Presented results confirm that carabid population dynamics is strongly influenced by climatic conditions (air and soil temperatures).


Keywords

Carabidae; pitfall trap; diversity; IPM

Hrčak ID:

170656

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/170656

Publication date:

5.12.2016.

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