Old forest edges may promote the distribution of forest species in carabid assemblages (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in Croatian forests

Boundaries between habitats are usually accompanied by transitions in the diversity and structural complexity of insect assemblages.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.Carabid beetles were sampled using pitfall traps set a

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Alterations in sea urchin (Mesocentrotus nudus) microbiota and their potential contributions to host according to barren severity

Abstract Sea urchins are biotic factors driving the decline of split-reins-full-double-stitched-5-8 kelp forests in marine ecosystems.However, few studies have analyzed the microbiota of surviving sea urchins in barren regions with scarce diet resources.Here, we analyzed the microbiota in the pharynx and gut of the sea urchin Mesocentrotus nudus lo

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