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Embedded forest edges were greater than 100 years old and had a similar composition and structure of vegetation to that in the adjacent forest. Carabid beetles were sampled using pitfall traps set along gradients extending 60 m from the forest edge into its interior and 60 m into the meadow. Edge effects on carabid beetle assemblages across forest-meadow ecotones in Dinaric beech-fir forests were determined in the Gorski Kotar region of western Croatia. 13., Budapest, H-1088, Hungary e-mail: between habitats are usually accompanied by transitions in the diversity and structural complexity of insect assemblages. MTA-ELTE-MTM Ecology Research Group, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, c/o Biological Institute of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/C., H-1117 Budapest, Hungary and Hungarian Natural History Museum, Baross u. 111 (5): 715-725, 2014 | DOI: 10.14411/eje.2014.090 Old forest edges may promote the distribution of forest species in carabid assemblages (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in Croatian forests Andreja BRIGIĆ 1, Marija STARČEVIĆ 2, Boris HRAŠOVEC 3, Zoltán ELEK 4 1ĭepartment of Zoology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Rooseveltov trg 6, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia e-mail: 2Īnte Kovačića 7, 47 000 Karlovac, Croatia e-mail: 3ĭepartment of Forest Protection and Wildlife Management, Faculty of Forestry, University of Zagreb, Svetošimunska 25, 10 002 Zagreb, Croatia e-mail: 4
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