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Category | Text Publication |
Reference Category | Journals |
Title (Primary) | Verteilung, Morphometrie und Fitness der Farbmorphen in Wildpopulationen von Chorthippus parallelus (Zetterstedt) (Caelifera: Acrididae) |
Author | Köhler, G.; Renker, C. |
Source Titel | Articulata |
Year | 2006 |
Department | BOOEK |
Volume | 21 |
Issue | 1 |
Page From | 59 |
Page To | 75 |
Language | deutsch |
Abstract | From 1977-2002 the distribution of five colour morphs in Chorthippus parallelus (according to RICHARDS & WALOFF 1954) was investigated in 19 populations in Thuringia, Central Germany. Summarizing the more than 4400 individuals (♀,♂), the morph "dorsal stripe" dominated with 45%, followed by "green" with about 30%, whereas the other three morphs were rare or missing completely. In the surroundings of Jena the morph distribution differed considerably between five populations (1984), but without a clear relation to the habitat type. Small scale differences occurred in nine subpopulations of a mesophilic meadow complex in the Leutratal near Jena. In a population which was studied in seven years between 1977-2002 the morph "dorsal stripe" varied around 50%, but since 1983 the morph "green" increased and "brown" decreased. In successive generations of four populations (1983/84) the intrapopular morph patterns were rather constant, but the morph percentages changed in different tendencies. The morphs in a population (Leutratal near Jena) differed significantly in the body measures (length of pronotum, tegmen and postfemur) with "dorsal stripe" males and "brown" females as the largest. In wild populations morph-specific differences in survival, fecundity and macropterism were indicated. |
Persistent UFZ Identifier | https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=2788 |
Köhler, G., Renker, C. (2006): Verteilung, Morphometrie und Fitness der Farbmorphen in Wildpopulationen von Chorthippus parallelus (Zetterstedt) (Caelifera: Acrididae) Articulata 21 (1), 59 - 75 |