• DOI:10.1038/245388A0
Corpus ID: 4288059

Anaerobiosis in the Overwintering Beetle Pelophila borealis

@article{ConradiLarsen1973AnaerobiosisIT,
  title={Anaerobiosis in the Overwintering Beetle Pelophila borealis},
  author={Else-Margrete Conradi-Larsen and Lauritz S{\o}mme},
  journal={Nature},
  year={1973},
  volume={245},
  pages={388-390}
}

Else-Margrete Conradi-Larsen, Lauritz Sømme

Published 1973

Biology

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AT Finse, situated at 1,200 m above sea level in the mountain plateau of Hardangervidda, Norway, adult Pelophila borealis (Coleoptera, Carabidae) overwinter in the soil of a sedimentation flat1. During the winter the flat is periodically flooded by the adjacent river, and consequently covered by a layer of ice. Sixty to 120 cm of snow covers the ground from late September until early June. Soil temperatures at the beetle's overwintering sites are normally slightly below 0° C, but rarely drop… CONTINUE READING

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