Actividad diaria de Polymita muscarum (Gastropoda: Cepolidae) en un agroecosistema: relación con factores climáticos y duración del apareamiento
Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: The global climate is changing quickly and as a consequence knowledge about the daily cycles, and their relation-ship with climate factors and reproductive biology, is a key step for conservation and management of land snails.However, this topic has not received any attention in the Cuban tree snail Polymita muscarum (Cepolidae). Hence,the aim of the present study is to characterise the daily activity pattern of the tree snail P. muscarum, and its rela-tionship with temperature, relative humidity and mating duration. Furthermore, we evaluated the allocation oftime for mating as a function of daily activity of this species. The field work was conducted in September and Oc-tober-2012, in an agroecosystem from Yaguajay, Banes municipality, Holguín province, Cuba; the number of phys-ically active adult individuals was recorded during surveys of 30 min each hour during a 24-29 h time period in afixed plot of 119 m2 each month. A unimodal pattern of the daily activity was detected. In both months, significantmultiple regressions were found between log10 (number of physically active adult individuals + 1.5) and the cli-mate variables studied. However, the predictive value of these equations suggests that there were other factors,no quantified in the present study, that probably also influence the number of physically active adult individuals.In the studied agroecosystem, the allocation of time for mating represented a proportion between 29-67 % in rela-tion to the daily mating activity period, which indicates a substantial investment in reproductive effort comparedto the daily cycle of P. muscarum
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Animal Science and Zoology
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7220183268