Habitat preferences and ventral color variability of Hirudo medicinalis (Clitellata: Hirudinida)
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F15%3A00108639" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/15:00108639 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.biotaxa.org/em/article/view/9648" target="_blank" >https://www.biotaxa.org/em/article/view/9648</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Habitat preferences and ventral color variability of Hirudo medicinalis (Clitellata: Hirudinida)
Original language description
This study deals with the habitat preferences of medicinal leech Hirudo medicinalis Linnaeus, 1758 in the Czech Republic, in a highly agriculturally used and fragmented landscape, and provides the detailed information about the ventral coloration of this species. The study was conducted in 2010–2011 at 11 out of total 15 localities of H. medicinalis in the Czech Republic. At each locality a phytocenological sample of littoral and aquatic vegetation was recorded and physicochemical variables were measured. All captured leeches were measured and weighted, and a photo of ventral side was taken. Division of localities based on aquatic vegetation (TWINSPAN) formed groups of localities which corresponded to the population sizes of H. medicinalis. According to the abiotic factors localities with H. medicinalis were rich in carbon, poor in oxygen and situated in an area with warm climate. In this study four different ventral color patterns were described. During the ontogenetic development ventral side becomes darker, as indicated by the significant relationship between the percentage of dark color and leech size.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10600 - Biological sciences
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Ecologica Montenegrina
ISSN
2337-0173
e-ISSN
2336-9744
Volume of the periodical
2
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
ME - MONTENEGRO
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
51-61
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-84981312285