Influence of Selected Environmental Parameters on Rove Beetle (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) Communities in Central European Floodplain Forests

Wetlands and especially floodplain forests belong to the most endangered ecosystems in Europe, characterized by complex dynamics of flood dry periods providing specific irreplaceable habitats for many organisms, including bioindicators. Many rove beetle species, instance, are well-known detectors monitoring ecological change, however, their use environmental assessment requires expand insufficient knowledge on particularities assemblages. Therefore, we compared communities eight from 2015 2016. Staphylinids were sampled pitfall trapping. We taxocoenoses ecotones alongside three rivers (Danube, Tisa Begej). evaluated impact plant diversity cover vegetation layers, area, circumference age forest stands, distance edge, thickness litter layer, physical chemical properties soil leaf (conductivity, pH, P, N, H, C) anthropogenic structure communities. recorded significant interactions between total dynamic activity beetles number species shrub layer. Species richness was significantly positively correlated with layer negatively relative H content soil. did not find any correlation Shannon diversity, but evenness linked