Journal
ZOOLOGIA
Volume 32, Issue 5, Pages 345-350Publisher
SOC BRASILEIRA ZOOLOGIA, UNIV FEDERAL PARANA
DOI: 10.1590/S1984-46702015000500003
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Heat extraction; litter sifting; pitfall trapping; soil sampling
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- Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic [QJ1230066]
- European project - Operational Programme Cross Border Co-operation CZ-PL [CZ.3.22/1.2.00/12.03445]
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Soil invertebrates are studied by a number of methods. Here we used zoological methods (soil sampling, pitfall trapping, litter sifting, and hand collecting) to sample centipede communities in four floodplain forests (Czech Republic, Europe) and compared the efficiency of these methods. Heat-extraction from soil samples was the most effective, followed by pitfall trapping. The centipedes found by us can be divided into five ecological groups: 1) larger, abundant lithobiomorphs, 2) larger, scarcer lithobiomorphs, 3) smaller, soil lithobiomorphs, 4) abundant geophilomorphs, and 5) scarcer geophilomorphs.
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