Click Beetles (Coleoptera, Elateridae) under the Conditions of Anthropogenic Landscape Transformation

A community of click beetles in landscape areas transformed by human activities is isolated from the community of these coleopterans in the surrounding biotopes and has a lower biodiversity, which is confirmed by the calculation of Margalef indices and construction of rarefaction curves. Sites of natural and anthropogenic origin (field margins and forest edges) can contribute to an increase in the biodiversity of these beetles in agrocenoses of perennial grass; this is due to the fact that click beetles are relatively moisture-loving species, for which these agrocenoses provide favorable living and reproduction conditions. The larvae of these species, which begin to develop in agrocenoses of perennial grass, can survive during further anthropogenic transformation (crop rotation).