Ekológia (Bratislava) Vol. 35, No. 4, p. 340–349, 2016 DOI:10.1515/eko-2016-0027 COMMUNITIES OF EPIGEIC BEETLES IN TREE LINE FROM MONTANE SPRUCE FOREST TO SECONDARY MEADOW IN THE DIFFERENT STAGE OF THE FOREST DECLINE IN THE AREA OF MODRAVA (BOHEMIAN FOREST, CZECH REPUBLIC) JAROSLAV BOHÁČ, KAREL MATĚJKA Faculty of Agriculture, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Studentská 13, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic; e-mail:
[email protected] IDS, Na Komořsku 2175/2a, 143 00 Praha 4, Czech Republic Abstract Boháč J., Matějka K.: Communities of epigeic beetles in tree line from montane spruce forest to secondary meadow in the different stage of the forest decline in the area of Modrava (Bohemian forest, Czech Republic). Ekológia (Bratislava), Vol. 35, No. 4, p. 340–349, 2016. Communities of epigeic beetles were studied using pitfall trapping on 10 plots with the different stage of decline and clear-cut plots without coarse woody debris. Species richness (number of all species, S), total species diversity as the Shannon–Wiener’s index (H) and equitability (e) were calcu- lated in the DBreleve. The Ward’s method of hierarchical agglomerative classification with Euclidean distance was used for the differentiation of the communities on the plots. Species data for this analyse were represented by logarithm-transformed activities [log(x+1)]. The single-factor analysis of vari- ance (ANOVA) was used for statistical testing of differences in structural parameters (e.g. species richness and diversity) amongst distinguished groups of the plots. The species diversity and activity differs on glades without trees and coarse woody debris.