Investigation of Species Diversity of Buprestid Beetles in Forests of Kurdistan Province

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Buprestid beetles are one of the important components of the biodiversity of forest ecosystem in Kurdistan Province. Different characteristics of biodiversity of buprestid beetles were studied by use of window trap, colored pan and colored sticky trap in these forests during 2009 and 2010. A total of 1205 specimens of 44 species were caught by use of considered traps during appearance of adults. Evaluation of dominance structure of species composition by use of Heydemann’s, classification showed that Buprestid beetles of Kurdistan forests include 3 dominant species, 3 subdominant species, 12 rare species and 26 subrare species. X2 test of parametric indices showed that structure of species diversity conformed logarithmic series. Investigation of fluctuations of species richness during appearance of adults showed that maximum and minimum of considered index in May and October were 30 and 1 respectively. As well as maximum of obtained species diversity was 4/02 bit in June.

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Iranian Journal of Plant Protection Science
Volume 45, Issue 1 - Serial Number 1
Spring and Summer
May 2014
Pages 101-109

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  • Receive Date: 03 July 2012
  • Revise Date: 24 December 2014
  • Accept Date: 08 September 2014

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