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Using radio telemetry to track ground beetles: Movement of Carabus ullrichii

  • Jana Růžičková EMAIL logo und Milan Veselý
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 14. September 2016
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Biologia
Aus der Zeitschrift Biologia Band 71 Heft 8

Abstract

Radio telemetry is an advanced method for studying movement behaviour which is one of the keys to understanding species ecology and biology. Using this method we studied the movement of Carabus ullrichii Germar, 1824, a large and apterous ground beetle species. Four individuals (one male, three females) were equipped with 0.28 g transmitters and radio-tracked for 10 days in three hour intervals in mosaic rural area; meadow and orchard. We found that maximum distance covered by an individual during this period was 120.9 m and C. ullrichii travelling speed in such habitat ranged from 1.69 to 13.43 m per day. Our preliminary results indicate that diurnal activity of this species is not affected by light conditions but by temperature. Beetles were most active at temperatures 15.0–17.4°C. Here we provide the first study of the movement ability of this species.

Acknowledgements

We thank to Jirí Korabecný and Karel Páleník for field assistance, Michal Hykel for help with analysis and comments and Daniel Hanley for linguistic corrections. We also thank to three anonymous reviewers for constructive advice and comments on the manuscript. The research was founded by Internal Grant Agency of Palacký University (IGA_PrF_2015_018).

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Received: 2016-1-28
Accepted: 2016-7-13
Published Online: 2016-9-14
Published in Print: 2016-8-1

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