Tendencies of Poecilus Cupreus Morphometric Alteration Depending on Habitation Region

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10.2991/isees-18.2018.3How to use a DOI?

Keywords

morphometric study, Poecilus cupreus, food potential, microclimatic habitat conditions, Ukraine, Chechen Republic, Tatarstan, Kostroma region, horizontal zonality, altitudinal zonation

Abstract

The article presents the changes in physical dimensions of Poecilus cupreus under the influence of various ecological factors. The field data comprising 7 habitats of 4 regions (Tatarstan, Ukraine, Chechen Republic, Kostroma region) was gathered. The morphometric study comprised 6 measuring criteria while body size is one of the most significant morphological characters linked with the ontogenesis length, motion activity, reproductive rate, competition capacity. Poecilus cupreus' sizes are stipulated by horizontal zonality and altitudinal zonation. Size alteration is caused by the period of resource availability, i.e. the length of growing season. A shorter season in higher latitudes and high-mountain restricts the period appropriate for feeding, growth and development, and, consequently, for the maximum body size. The body size and form are determined by a set of factors. The most important factors are, apparently, the bugs' wintering area, microclimatic habitat conditions and food availability. The discriminative analysis has revealed that the population composition of P. Cupreus statistically differs in all regions. The most alike are the populations of Chechen Republic and Kostroma region, which is due to the certain similarity of altitudinal and latitudinal belts. Presumably, the length of the vegetation period in high-mountain is identical to the one in northern latitude. Reportedly, the most different from all are the bugs from Tatarstan. The ground beetles agrocenoses are characterized by a significant difference in the width of the elytra and pronotum. It can be due to the living environment when certain body proportions help to find the appropriate habitats in certain agricultural plants

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - R.A. Sukhodolskaya
AU  - T.A. Avtaeva
AU  - V.V. Brigadirenko
AU  - A.L. Antsiferov
AU  - Sh.A. Kushaliev
PY  - 2018/12
DA  - 2018/12
TI  - Tendencies of Poecilus Cupreus Morphometric Alteration Depending on Habitation Region
BT  - Proceedings of the International Symposium “Engineering and Earth Sciences: Applied and Fundamental Research” (ISEES 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 10
EP  - 15
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/isees-18.2018.3
DO  - 10.2991/isees-18.2018.3
ID  - Sukhodolskaya2018/12
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