Ecology and conservation of the Dutch ground beetle fauna: Lessons from 66 years of pitfall trapping

by Hans Turin, D. Johan Kotze, Stefan Muller-Kroehling, Pavel Saska, John Spence, and Theodoor Heijerman

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Over the past decades, large amounts of data about carabids have been collected in the Netherlands, initially for the purpose of creating distribution maps for the country. In addition to information from collections and faunistic publications, a significant amount of data came from ecological studies using pitfall traps. Because of the rich tradition of carabidological research in the Netherlands, an exceptionally large database of these pitfall data is available. The database is a mix of approximately 1,500 short-term samples and circa 4,400 so-called 'year-samples', for which pitfalls were functional during the whole activity period of ground beetles in spring...Read more
  • ISBN13 9789086869213
  • Publish Date 6 April 2022 (first published 1 January 2022)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country NL
  • Imprint Wageningen Academic Publishers