摘要：The aim of this study was to identify the structure of the ground beetle community of arable land and asses the potential influence of different crop types on variation of composition. This research was carried out at five sites of farmland in urban and suburban zones of the town of Prešov and Veľký Šariš in eastern Slovakia during the growing seasons 2010 and 2011 at an arable land under conventional farming systems. All together there were entrapped 10 459 specimens of ground beetles belonging to 68 species of the family Carabidae. As the dominant species, Poecilus cupreus (Linnaeus, 1758), Pterostichus melanarius (Illiger, 1798) and Pseudoophonus rufipes (De Geer, 1774) were identified. The arable land ground beetle community can be characterised as having low diversity and equitability, dominated by very eurytopic, nonspecific species of open habitats. In term of environmental quality, arable land presents an anthropogenically influenced, unstable and devastated biotope with low contribution to farmland biodiversity. The study did not show significant influence of crop type on the composition variation of the ground beetle community.
