2025 Ecosystem Transformation 8 (4), 65-92

Ecological grouping of ground beetles (Carabidae, Coleoptera) by biotopic preferences in the forest-meadow landscape of Udmurtia

Borisovskiy A.G. 

Ground beetles collected in 2022 in the forest-meadow landscape of Udmurtia were studied in terms of biotopic preferences via using the indicator value index (INDVAL). This method provides the identification of indicator species for different hierarchal levels of habitats and the assessment of statistical significance of the obtained results. In the republic, the method was applied in the ground beetle investigations for the first time. It was found that for most studied species, the biotopic preferences generally coincided with those reported in the literature. However, some species were distinguished by a local specificity of biotopic preferences. In particular, 9 analyzed species out of 56 turned out to be the indicators of forest edges.

A. G. Borisovskiy
Udmurt State University
Universitetskaya St. 1, Izhevsk, 426034 Russia

borisovscky.alexander@yandex.ru

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