Six groups of ground-dwelling arthropods show different diversity responses along elevational gradients in the Swiss Alps

JD Gilgado, HP Rusterholz, B Braschler… - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Elevational gradients along mountain slopes offer opportunities to study key factors shaping
species diversity patterns. Several environmental factors change over short distances along …

The impact of climate variations on the structure of ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) assemblage in forests and wetlands

M Kirichenko-Babko, Y Danko, A Musz-Pomorksa… - Forests, 2020 - mdpi.com
We studied the effect of climate variations on the structure of the assemblage of ground
beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in a wetland and surrounding watershed forest. We …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of arable farming management on the biodiversity of Carabidae (Coleoptera)

JI Porhajašová, M Babošová - Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Carabidae (Coleoptera) are a useful tool for monitoring the effects of different
types of control and theretofore it is important to highlight about their role as possible …

Change of ellipsoid biovolume (EV) of ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) along an urban–suburban–rural gradient of Central Slovakia

V Langraf, S David, R Babosová, K Petrovičová… - Diversity, 2020 - mdpi.com
Changes in the structure of ground beetle communities indicate environmental stability or
instability influenced by, eg, urbanization, agriculture, and forestry. It can affect flight …

Carabid community structure in northern China grassland ecosystems: Effects of local habitat on species richness, species composition and functional diversity

N Tsafack, F Rebaudo, H Wang, DD Nagy, Y Xie… - PeerJ, 2019 - peerj.com
Background Most carabid beetles are particularly sensitive to local habitat characteristics.
Although in China grasslands account for more than 40% of the national land, their …

Multi-phase recovery of carabid assemblages during 19 years of secondary succession in forest stands disturbed by windstorm without salvage logging in northern …

J Skłodowski - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Windstorms impact the functioning and structure of forests and cause economic losses. For
this reason, various potential methods of regenerating windthrown stands are investigated …

[HTML][HTML] The associations between ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) communities and environmental condition in floodplain forests in the Pannonian Basin

J Litavský, O Majzlan, S Stašiov, M Svitok, P Fedor - EJE, 2021 - eje.cz
We studied assemblages of carabids in eight similar habitats, five in Slovakia and three in
Serbia. The ground beetles were caught by pitfall traps from February 2015 until November …

[HTML][HTML] Climate and land use primarily drive the diversity of multi-taxonomic communities in agroecosystems

EL Slabbert, TM Knight, T Wubet, M Frenzel… - Basic and Applied …, 2024 - Elsevier
To successfully conserve and restore agrobiodiversity, it is essential to understand the
impact of multiple drivers and interlinkages across multiple taxa that occur above, across …

Leaving windthrown stands unsalvaged as a management practice for facilitating late-successional carabid assemblages

J Skłodowski - European Journal of Forest Research, 2023 - Springer
The usual practice following a windthrow event is salvage logging of all damaged trees. This
study was carried out in a pine stand affected by storms with varying disturbance severities …

Ground beetle trophic interactions alter available nitrogen in forest soil

JR Lienau, MC Duguid, OJ Schmitz - Oikos, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
It is generally held that microbes exert primary control over nitrogen availability in temperate
forests. Yet the role of soil and litter‐dwelling invertebrates to provide additional control via …