title: [Characteristics of wintering in ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) in forest ecosystems of the East European Plain].
abstract: Specific features of wintering of the ground beetles in three habitats (litter, soil, and bark of fallen trees and stumps) were comparatively studied in the forests of forest-steppe (Voronezh District) and subzone of broad-leaved-spruce forests (Moscow District). The main mass of ground beetles is concentrated in the upper 10-cm soil layer, irrespective of the type of watering (automorphous or hydromorphous soils). Wintering under the bark is a facultative feature of the most species occurring in these biocoenoses.
authors.affiliation: All-Russian Research Institute of Nature Conservation, Znamenskoe-Sadki, Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: S Iu
authors.initials: SIu
authors.lastname: Griuntal'
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001517:Coleoptera / Q000502:physiology*; D017753:Ecosystem; D006605:Hibernation; D012426:Russia; D012987:Soil; D014197:Trees
chemical_list: D012987:Soil
vernacular_title: Osobennosti zimovki zhuzhelits (Coleoptera, Carabidae) v lesnykh ékosistemakh Russkoĭ ravniny.