The effect of alpine ski-slopes on epigeic beetles: does even a nature-friendly management make a change?

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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10841-013-9579-3" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10841-013-9579-3</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10841-013-9579-3" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10841-013-9579-3</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The effect of alpine ski-slopes on epigeic beetles: does even a nature-friendly management make a change?
Original language description
Unique alpine ecosystems are threatened by skiing activities all over the world. We studied the effect of alpine ski-slopes on epigeic beetles by pitfall trapping in the Praděd National Nature Reserve (Czech Republic) where the management of ski-slopes has never caused any disturbance to the vegetation cover. Using a mixed modelling approach, we demonstrate a significant effect of ski-slope management on the epigeic beetle community, including its functional diversity. Beetle species responded to the ski-slope individually. We found a noticeable decline in the abundance of most species in the patches with artificially increased accumulation of snow, i.e. close to the interior edges of the ski-slopes. Above all, the ski-slopes were not preferred by relict species such as Neagolius limbolarius, Minota carpathica and Liotrichus affinis but vagile widespread carabids (Amara lunicollis, Poecilus versicolor) and herbivores associated with nitrophilous plants (Gastrophysa viridula) were more
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
EH - Ecology - communities
OECD FORD branch
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Publication year
2013
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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