Soil and habitat preferences of ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) in natural mountain landscape
Journal Title: Baltic Journal of Coleopterology - Year 2011, Vol 11, Issue 2
Abstract
The distribution of ground beetle assemblages along elevation gradient in the Bieszczady National Park (East Carpathians) was investigated. An principal component analysis of the spatial patterns of ground beetle assemblages clearly differentiated groups of species from various elevation zones. Also forward selection of redundancy analysis indicated that most of the variation of species was described by elevation and presence of vegetation zones (beech wood and alpine meadow). Close relationship between empirical species richness and predicted from mid-domain effect showed fit to geometric null model, explaining 73% of the species variance.
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Tomasz Skalski, Renata Kędzior, Wojciech Maciejowski, Andrzej Kacprzak
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