Is the type of soil an important factor determining the local abundance of carrion beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae)?

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14411/eje.2015.071" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.14411/eje.2015.071</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14411/eje.2015.071" target="_blank" >10.14411/eje.2015.071</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Is the type of soil an important factor determining the local abundance of carrion beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae)?

Original language description

Carrion beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae) provide a valuable ecosystem service by promoting nutrient cycling and controlling pests like noxious flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae and Sarcophagidae). Our main goal was to examine the relationship between the occurrence of carrion beetles and soil type. We used pitfall traps to collect 43,856 specimens of 15 species of carrion beetles in the Czech Republic during 2009. We found that the abundance of seven of the carrion beetles ? Nicrophorus antennatus (Reitter),N. germanicus (Linnaeus), N. humator (Gleditsch), N. interruptus (Stephens), N. sepultor (Charpentier), Silpha obscura obscura (Herbst) and T. sinuatus (Fabricius) ? was significantly higher either in areas with chernozem or fluvisol soils. These findings support our hypothesis that soil type could be an important factor determining the occurrence of necrophagous European carrion beetles. Our findings could be helpful when selecting important nature conservation sites (particularly inas

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EG - Zoology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

European Journal of Entomology

ISSN

1210-5759

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

112

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

747-754

UT code for WoS article

000365332000021

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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