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The influence of biotic and abiotic factors on the communities of predatory diving beetles
KOLÁŘ, Vojtěch
Diving beetles (Dytiscidae) are important inhabitants of water bodies, where their adults and larvae often represent top predators in the absence of fish. I carried out a literature review of biotic and abiotic factors that may affect the occurrence of aquatic insects with emphasis on the impact of aquaculture practises. In 2011 and 2012 I also carried out a field survey at two pond systems near Jindřichův Hradec. I used five baited traps in both the littoral zone and at the edge of the littoral zone and open water. Ponds with fish usually had very low diving beetle abundances, although one pond with fish but well-developed littoral zone had a relatively high number of species, similar to ponds without fish. My survey therefore confirmed high importance of littoral vegetation for diving beetles. This implies that intensive aquaculture practises are detrimental for the diversity of aquatic insects at a given locality. I have also found one individual of the rare diving beetle Colymbetes striatus, previously known from only a few localities in the Czech Republic.

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