Geographic variation in functional and structural traits in ground beetles (the case study of Carabus aeruginosus F.-W., 1822)
1 Kemerovo State University Kemerovo, Russian Federation, Russia.
2 Research Institute for Problems of Ecology and Mineral Wealth Use of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences Kazan, Russian Federation, Russia.
3 Visimskiy State Reserve Kirovgrad, Russian Federation, Russia.
4 Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University. Kazan, Russian Federation, Russia.
Research Article
GSC Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2021, 15(01), 104-111.
Article DOI: 10.30574/gscbps.2021.15.1.0110
Publication history:
Received on 20 March 2021; revised on 26 April 2021; accepted on 28 April 2021
Abstract:
We sampled beetles by pitfall traps at two sites of its area: Visimskiy Reserve ((580N 610E, Kirovgrad province, Russia, the western border of area) and Kemerovo city (540N 810E, Kemerovo province, Russia, the centre of area). At the first site birch and meadows plots were under study, at the second ‒ meadows and lawns in the residential and industrial zones and the dump in 25 km from the city. 2109 specimen were measured for six linear traits. Elytra parameters were similar at both regions studied, but another traits (pronotum and head) were significantly larger in the beetles from Reserve. Populations morphometric structure differed significantly at all sites studied. Factors “Province”, “Anthropogen”, “Biotope” and “Sex” affected beetles body size and structure of its populations. We conclude, that populations at the edge of the area can reproduce and survive successfully due to the mechanism that had been revealed earlier: either body size or the structure of the population change.
Keywords:
Body size variation; Morphometric structure; Ground beetles; Area theory
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