[Characteristics of wintering in ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) in forest ecosystems of the East European Plain].
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.
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All-Russian Research Institute of Nature Conservation, Znamenskoe-Sadki, Moscow, Russia.
D000818:Animals; D001517:Coleoptera / Q000502:physiology*; D017753:Ecosystem; D006605:Hibernation; D012426:Russia; D012987:Soil; D014197:Trees
D012987:Soil
Osobennosti zimovki zhuzhelits (Coleoptera, Carabidae) v lesnykh ékosistemakh Russkoĭ ravniny.