An investigation into the long-term effect of soil transplant in bare spoil heaps on survival and migration of soil meso and macrofauna

Moradi, Jabbar; Vicentini, Fabio; Šimáčková, Hana; Pižl, Václav; Tajovský, Karel; Starý, Josef; Frouz, Jan

doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2017.11.012

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“…Dispersal of transplanted individuals is highly dependent on the surrounding environmental conditions. For example, Moradi et al (2018) found that although soil transplants lead to greater abundances of soil macrofauna, areas adjacent to transplant sites were devoid of soil macrofauna due to physical and chemical limitations of the surrounding soil.…”

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Rewilding with invertebrates and microbes to restore ecosystems: Present trends and future directions

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Murphy

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Ecology and Evolution

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Rewilding with invertebrates and microbes to restore ecosystems: Present trends and future directions

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“…Moreover, strong interactions and feedback loops occur between vegetation and soil fauna, adding differentiation factors and complex linkages in these growing ecosystems 43–45 . Secondly, even if the dispersal abilities of animals could interfere with the occurrence of species 46,47 , no study has addressed the topic of fauna colonization on artificial soil such as spoil tips by the surrounding fauna (but read 48 ).…”

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Differences in collembola species assemblages (Arthropoda) between spoil tips and surrounding environments are dependent on vegetation development

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Devigne²

2018

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Spoil tip production is one of the most extreme means of soil destruction, replacing the native soil with a coarse substrate. In this paper, we aim to determine the colonization of soil biota in new substrates, using collembola assemblages as an indicator. In Northern France, we sampled collembola communities in 11 coal mine spoil tips and their surroundings divided in four stages of vegetation development: bare soil, meadow, shrub and tree covers. We demonstrated that collembola assemblages of spoil tips were different from those observed in the surrounding native soil. Collembola communities on bare soil were characterized by pioneer (based on the Indval index) or exotic species (new in Northern France). However, homogenization occurred with development of vegetation cover. Indeed, our data showed no difference in springtail diversity between spoil tips and their corresponding environments regarding the tree vegetation cover. Using the Indval method, we defined pioneer, colonizing, opportunist or stenoecious species as a function of substrate affinities. Using the same method, we defined specialists, elective, preferring or indifferent species as a function of vegetation cover affinities, showing similarities with previously published surveys. Hence, our results were obtained by a focused analysis of species and their particularity. Finally, we discussed the interest in and the complementarity between the species analysis approach and the methodology dealing with functional traits and of its importance in the decision process of restoration and/or conservation of nature.

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“…A better functioning new soil community could, in turn, be important for the establishment of target plant species. Many functions that soil biota provide are density dependent [14] and the density of soil organisms should be sufficiently high to avoid mortality and inbreeding depression [11,12]. In this study, upland meadow soil inoculation also introduced some keystone taxa which may play key roles by determining microbiome functioning, such as, Acidobacteriota, Proteobacteria and Bacteroidota.…”

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“…It is likely that the introduced soil community survives and establishes best in the local habitat and that increasing the amount of inoculated soil at the recipient site increased resemblance to the original habitat conditions, e.g. by preventing the effects of desiccation and by better resembling the original abiotic conditions such as nutrient availability and pH [11,12]. A better functioning new soil community could, in turn, be important for the establishment of target plant species.…”

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“…In empirical soil inoculation studies, so far, greatly varying amounts of donor soil have been used ranging from 0.016 cm up to 40 cm layers of donor soil [12,13]. We may expect that there is a positive relationship between the establishment of soil biota and plants and hence the success of the inoculation, and the amount of soil that is used.…”

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Soil inoculum identity and rate jointly steer microbiomes and plant communities in the field

Han

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Inoculation with soil from distinctly different ecosystems has been reported to induce directional changes in the plant and soil communities, however, a major question is how specific these inoculations are and whether different inocula collected from a similar ecosystem will also lead to differential ecosystem development at the recipient site. We conducted a soil inoculation field experiment at a degraded grassland with two different soil inocula both from grasslands and used three inoculation depths. We then measured the development of plant and soil communities over a period of three years following soil inoculation. Our results show that soil and plant communities diverged and that these effects were stronger with increasing inoculation amount. Inoculation with upland meadow soil at the recipient site resulted in more complex biotic networks than inoculation with meadow steppe soil. Our experiment highlights that soil inoculation can promote restoration of degraded ecosystems but that the direction and speed of ecosystem development depend on the origin of the inoculum and the amount of inoculum used.

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An investigation into the long-term effect of soil transplant in bare spoil heaps on survival and migration of soil meso and macrofauna

Cited by 20 publications

References 34 publications

Rewilding with invertebrates and microbes to restore ecosystems: Present trends and future directions

Rewilding with invertebrates and microbes to restore ecosystems: Present trends and future directions

Differences in collembola species assemblages (Arthropoda) between spoil tips and surrounding environments are dependent on vegetation development

Soil inoculum identity and rate jointly steer microbiomes and plant communities in the field

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