Man and the biosphere Series 28. Freshwater wetlands and their sustainable future: A case study of Třeboň Basin Biosphere Reserve, Czech Republic

0206349 - UPB-H 20013188 RIV SIGLE FR eng M - Monography Chapter
Pižl, Václav
Soil surface Coleoptera in the Wet Meadows.
Man and the biosphere Series 28. Freshwater wetlands and their sustainable future: A case study of Třeboň Basin Biosphere Reserve, Czech Republic. Paříž: UNESCO, 2002, s. 349-360
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z6066911
Keywords : Coleoptera * wetland ecosystems
Subject RIV: EH - Ecology, Behaviour

Insects are one of the important components of wetland ecosystems. Apart from numerous phytophagous species that reduce the net primary production of plants, many insect species consume animal food in various forms and many species, because of their saprophagous, necrophagous, or coprophagous life habits, contribute to the decomposition processes in these ecosystems. Also, many insect species may become food of insectivorous vertebrates, especially birds, living in the wetlands. Beetles (Coleoptera) play an important role in all these processes. Soil surface beetles of wet or moist grasslands have been studied by numerous authors (Bonnes, 1953; Doskočil and Hůrka, 1962; Tietze, 1974; etc.) but only a few studies were performed in eutrophic wetlands similar to the Wet Meadows site. Obrtel(1972) studied surface-active beetles in the terrestrial reed belt of the eutrophic Nesyt fishponds in southern Moravia (Czech Republic), and Jarmer (1973 investigated carabid beetles of the swampy banks of the Rhine in Germany. Valuable data concerning soil surface Coleoptera can also be found in the study by Krogerus (1948). The aim of this study was to collect data on the structure and dynamics of the synusium of epigeic beetles in the Wet Meadows near Třeboň.
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