Biomass estimation using a length-weight relationship in beetle larvae (Coleoptera: Aphodiidae, Histeridae, Hydrophilidae, Staphylinidae) obtained from cow dung

Karol Daliga; Radosław Mroczyński

doi:10.1515/pjen-2016-0024

Biomass estimation using a length-weight relationship in beetle larvae (Coleoptera: Aphodiidae, Histeridae, Hydrophilidae, Staphylinidae) obtained from cow dung

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This research enabled the relationship between length and dry body mass to be determined for 158 beetle larvaetaken from cow dung in north-eastern Poland. The larvae were divided into three morphological types, for which the power and linear function of the body length-weight relationship were determined. The linear regression equation characterizes the relationship between body weight and length for all morphological types of larvae very well (0.8955≤R2≤0.9752). The power regression equation characterizes this relationship forall morphological types of larvae well (0.8562≤R2≤0.9742).The equations obtained can be used to compute dry mass for most beetle larvae inhabiting dung.

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Karol Daliga dr inż.
Radosław Mroczyński
- Wydział Biologii i Biotechnologii Katedra Ekologii i Ochrony Środowiska

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Category:: Articles
Type:: artykuły w czasopismach recenzowanych i innych wydawnictwach ciągłych
Published in:: POLISH JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY (POLSKIE PISMO ENTOMOLOGICZNE) no. 85, pages 399 - 407,
ISSN: 0032-3780
Language:: English
Publication year:: 2016
Bibliographic description:: Daliga K., Mroczyński R.: Biomass estimation using a length-weight relationship in beetle larvae (Coleoptera: Aphodiidae, Histeridae, Hydrophilidae, Staphylinidae) obtained from cow dung// POLISH JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY (POLSKIE PISMO ENTOMOLOGICZNE). -Vol. 85., nr. 4 (2016), s.399-407
DOI:: Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1515/pjen-2016-0024
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