Riparian Ground Beetles (Coleoptera) on the Banks of Running and Standing Waters
| Autor: | Roman Babko, Witold Stępniewski, Marina Kirichenko-Babko, Yaroslav Danko, Małgorzata Franus |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0106 biological sciences
lcsh:Hydraulic engineering River ecosystem Floodplain Geography Planning and Development Biodiversity riverbanks Aquatic Science 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Biochemistry Swamp lcsh:Water supply for domestic and industrial purposes lcsh:TC1-978 assemblage overgrown Water Science and Technology Riparian zone lcsh:TD201-500 geography geography.geographical_feature_category Ecology 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology floodplain lakes Vegetation Habitat Carabidae stenotopic species Channel (geography) |
| Zdroj: | Water Volume 12 Issue 6 Water, Vol 12, Iss 1785, p 1785 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2073-4441 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/w12061785 |
| Popis: | Rivers and their floodplains offer a wide variety of habitats for invertebrates. River ecosystems are subject to high anthropic influence: as a result the channel morphology is changed, swamps are drained, floodplains are built up, and rivers are polluted. All this has radically changed the environment for the inhabitants of the floodplains, including riparian stenotopic species. Although riparian arthropods are oriented primarily to the production of hydro-ecosystems, the type of water body&mdash lentic or lotic&mdash has a determining effect in the structure of communities. Most riparian arthropods have evolutionarily adapted to riverbanks with significant areas of open alluvial banks. This paper considered the structure of assemblages of ground beetles associated with the riverbanks and the shores of floodplain lakes and their differences. The banks of rivers and the shores of floodplain lakes were considered separately due to the differences in the habitats associated with them. Our results showed that riverbanks, which experience significant pollution, were actively colonized by vegetation and were unsuitable for most riparian ground beetles. The shores of floodplain lakes, being an optional habitat for riparian arthropods, cannot serve as refugia. Thus, the transformation of floodplain landscapes and river pollution creates a problem for the biological diversity of floodplain ecosystems, since riparian stenotopic species of the riverbanks become rare and disappear. |
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