ORIGINAL ARTICLE
An effect of strip-management on carabid beetles (Col., Carabidae) in sugar beet crop
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Agricultural University, Department of Plant Protection, Cybulskiego 32, 50-205 Wrocław, Poland
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Agricultural University, Department of Plant Protection, 29 Listopada 54, 31-425 Kraków, Poland
Corresponding author
Teresa Jaworska
Agricultural University, Department of Plant Protection, 29 Listopada 54, 31-425 Kraków, Poland
Agricultural University, Department of Plant Protection, 29 Listopada 54, 31-425 Kraków, Poland
Journal of Plant Protection Research 2006;46(1):61-71
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ABSTRACT
The attractiveness of uncultivated (weedy) and cultivated strips (planted with a mixture of flowering plants) and the adjacent sugar beet crop to Carabidae was studied in 1999–2000 at the Experimental Research Station near Wrocław, Poland. Obtained results showed that greater plant abundance and their diversity on weedy strips had a positive effect on the number of carabid beetles. Also more carabid species were identified in uncultivated strips than in strips of mixture of Phacelia tanacetifolia, Coriandrum sativum and Sinapis alba. The lowest number of species was trapped in sugarbeet crop and bare soil. The most numerous species in all treatments were Pseudoophonus rufipes, Anchomenus dorsalis (Pont.), Poecilus cupres and the species of the Bembidion genera.
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The authors have declared that no conflict of interests exist.
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