Features of the formation of click beetle complexes in perennial plantings of the Western Caucasus

Valeriy Orlov,E Egorov,I Ilina,E Yakimenko,N Zaporozhets

doi:10.1051/bioconf/20213404015

Abstract

The complexes of click beetles in the perennial plantations of the Western Caucasus are formed at the expense of species from the surrounding (adjacent) biotopes. In the forest zone, the complexes are formed by their similarity to meadow biotopes (biocenoses) with inclusions of dominant species from meadow biotopes of the foothill lane. Agriotes tauricus Heyd., and Drasterius bimaculatus (Rossi) are common species in all lanes and zones of the studied region. Species Agriotes gurgistanus (Fald.), Melanotus fusciceps (Gyll.), Athous Circassiensis Reitt., Agriotes sputator (L.) are most often dominant of elateridocoplex.

Highlights

Intensification and biologization are modern trends in agricultural production
Click beetles are a fairly well-studied group for field crop rotations, for perennial crops this knowledge is very fragmentary, or at least not summarized in a system
Since many of them are removed from the official framework of agricultural production, since some of them exist as unused gardens, or as gardens turned into forests, or as small-sized plantations of fruit crops, but their study allows a more complete assessment of the direction of succession processes, we correlated them with the above conditional scheme

Summary

Introduction

Intensification and biologization are modern trends in agricultural production. Chemical protection and organic farming as the extreme sides of intensification and biologization, respectively, have created the direction of adaptive crop production based on the use of natural self-regulation mechanisms with the possibility of introducing targeted (often point) control methods into the ecosystem. Experts have gained access to mobile global resources that allow them to get their position in various databases and use some of the integrated digitized indicators of the environment and phytocenoses for analysis [4,5,6] In this system, the bottleneck was and remains the direct fixation of biological objects, and if the agricultural service is at least able to cope with the identification of widespread diseases and pests, the appearance of unfamiliar objects, especially when they appear on a massive scale, often causes, if not panic in the region, very strong concern. This article is an attempt to explain the mechanism of the formation of the elateride complex in the orchards and vineyards of the Western Caucasus, or, at least, is the popularization of the topic of biodiversity

Materials and methods

Results and discussion

18. Agriculture