Vestnik of Orenburg State Pedagogical University. Electronic Scientific Journal. 2018. № 4(28). P. 44—55
03.00.00 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
UDC 573.01:595.762.12
Sukhodolskaya Raisa Anatolievna, Candidate of Biological Sciences, Senior Researcher
Research Institute for Problems of Ecology and Mineral Wealth Use of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences Ukhova Nadezhda Leonidovna, Candidate of Biological Sciences, Senior Researcher
Visimskiy State Nature Biosphere Reserve Vorobyova Iraida Gennadievna, Candidate of Biological Sciences, Assistance Professor
Mariy State University
BODY SIZE POPULATION STRUCTURE VARIATION IN GROUND BEETLE Pterostichus oblongopunctatus (Fabricius, 1787) IN NATURE RESERVES
Abstract
The article presents the results of morphometric analysis (elytron, pronotum and head lengths and widths) in carabid Pterostichus oblongopunctatus. The authors carried out it manually by self written program on Pyton 2.7 with the use of numpy and openCV libraries. Beetles were sampled in 2014—2015 in three nature reserves: Volzshsko-Kamskiy (55°18′ N, 49°17′ E), Bolyshaya Kokshaga (56°40′ N, 47°16′ E) and Visimskiy (57°24′ N, 59°23′ E). The authors studied 5—10 plots in each reservoir in native pine- and linden forests in the first protected area, pine-forests — in the second and fur-spruce forests — in the third. Beetles were sampled traditionally with Barbers traps. Our results showed that practically beetles all traits in Volzshsko-Kamskiy reserve were larger than those in Visimskiy one. Beetles from Bolyshaya Kokshaga took the middle position. Morphometric structure of the populations in P. oblongopunctatus differed in all nature reserves studied, but it was more similar in Bolyshaya Kokshaga and Visimskiy. PCA revealed similar loads on all traits in the populations of Volzshsko-Kamskiy reserve unlike the populations of the other two.
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Sukhodolskaya R. A., Ukhova N. L., Vorobyova I. G. Body size population structure variation in ground beetle Pterostichus oblongopunctatus (Fabricius, 1787) in nature reserves. Vestnik of Orenburg State Pedagogical University. Electronic Scientific Journal, 2018, no. 4 (28), pp. 44—55. DOI: https://doi.org/10.32516/2303-9922.2018.28.4.