Effect of hydrologic regime and forest age on Collembola in riparian forests

Sterzyńska, Maria; Shrubovych, Julia; Kaprus, Igor

doi:10.1016/j.apsoil.2013.11.010

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“…For example, we found that S. aureus, which was more abundant in the collembolan communities in the past, had been replaced by S. elegans, preferring dryer habitats (Bretfeld 1999). Species replacement as an effect of different disturbance regimes has been documented, among others, in arable fields (Filser et al 2002), pastures (Petersen et al 2004) and in a river floodplain (Sterzyńska et al 2014); however, it was attributable to environmental and climatic changes only in alpine and subarctic ecosystems (Rusek 1993;Makkonen et al 2011). In the current study, variance partitioning indicated that the pure effect of time explained the highest amount of variation in collembolan community composition and the pure effect of green components was less important and non-significant.…”

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“…This result apparently reflects changes in the Collembola community species richness over time, where environmental degradation during urbanization leads to rather species-poor communities of Collembola. The response of Collembola communities to anthropogenic disturbances has been frequently documented (e.g., Urbanovičová et al 2014;Sterzyńska et al 2014). However, our results clearly indicate that collembolan communities might be potential good indicators of landscape stress also in urban ecosystems (Greenslade 2007).…”

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Changes through time in soil Collembola communities exposed to urbanization

Rzeszowski

Sterzyńska

2015

Urban Ecosyst

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The study aimed to assess if long-term exposure to urbanization changes the structure and composition of soil collembolan communities in urban green components (street lawns and park lawns) and in all urban green. Species diversity metrics, rarefaction, species richness estimators (Chao 1 and ACE) and multivariate analysis were used for the comparison of changes in community structure and diversity pattern over ca 30 years' time span. Our results clearly demonstrate a shift, through time, in Collembola community composition and structure in an urban ecosystem and confirm that there is a linkage between long-term exposure to urbanization and changes in collembolan communities. Long-term urbanization led to erosion in species diversity and the formation of species-poor communities, species replacement, loss of specialized forms and promoted the invasion of exotic species. However, we show that the time span considered produced significant differences in diversity attribute values for the collembolan communities from street lawns and insignificant differences in park lawns, also we noted lack of significant differences in collembolan abundance across the two urban green components. The observed temporal changes in collembolan communities indicate that their response to disturbances in urban settings and selecting species is shaped by multiple processes. We conclude that more resistant collembolan communities were found over time in less stressed urban greening components such as park lawn soils compared to street lawn soils.

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Changes through time in soil Collembola communities exposed to urbanization

Rzeszowski

Sterzyńska

2015

Urban Ecosyst

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“…Secondly, it offers the opportunity to have a clear abiotic gradient known to impact both plants (Lite, Bagstad & Stromberg ; Violle et al . ) and below‐ground fauna (Russell & Griegel ; Lessel, Marx & Eisenbeis ; Sterzyńska, Shrubovych & Kaprus ). Below‐ground, we considered Collembola as a model group.…”

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Shifts and linkages of functional diversity between above‐ and below‐ground compartments along a flooding gradient

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Summary 1.Trait-based approaches have the potential to reveal general and predictive relationships between organisms and ecosystem functioning. However, the mechanisms underlying the functional structure of communities are still unclear. Within terrestrial ecosystems, several studies have shown that many ecological processes are controlled by the interacting above-and belowground compartments. However, few studies have used traits to reveal the functional relationships between plants and soil fauna. Mostly, research combining plants and soil fauna solely used the traits of one assemblage in predictive studies. 2. Above-ground (plants) and below-ground (Collembola) compartments were sampled over a flooding gradient in northern France along the Seine River. First, we measured the effect of flooding on functional and taxonomic assembly within both communities. We then considered the linkages between plant and Collembolan species richness, community traits and assessed whether traits of both compartments converged at high flooding intensity (abiotic filtering) and diverged when this constraint is released (biotic filtering). 3. Species richness of both taxa followed the same bell-shaped pattern along the gradient, while a similar significant pattern of functional richness was only observed for plants. Further analyses revealed a progressive shift from trait convergence to divergence for plants, but not for Collembola, as constraints intensity decreased. Instead, our results highlighted that Collembola traits were mainly linked to the variations in plant traits. This leads, within Collembola assemblages, to convergence of a subset of perception and habitat-related traits for which the relationship with plant traits was assessed. 4. Synthesis. Using a trait-based approach, our study highlighted that functional relationships occur between above-and below-ground compartments. We underlined that functional composition of plant communities plays a key role in structuring Collembola assemblages in addition to the role of abiotic variables. Our study clearly shows that functional diversity provides a new approach to link the above-and below-ground compartments and might, therefore, be further considered when studying ecological processes at the interface between both compartments.

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“…They are some of the richest as regards flora and fauna ecosystems of the Babiogórski National Park (Parusel et al 2004;Sterzyńska et al 2014). They provide habitats for valuable and protected species of plants and animals (JoL 2012 No.…”

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“…A good indicator showing the degree of degradation of hydrogenic habitats is soil mesofauna which is sensitive to environmental change and could quickly respond to habitat disturbances, such as seasonal drought, air warming (Xu et al 2012) or changes in hydrologic regime in a river floodplain (Sterzyńska et al 2014). Soil mesofauna plays an important role in soil formation, transformation and decomposition of soil organic matter, distribution of soil particles, water infiltration rate, nutrient cycling, mineralization, immobilization, the availability of N and other nutrients, and the composition, abundance and dispersion and activity of bacteria and mycorrhizal fungi (Menta 2012;Briones 2014).…”

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Restoration of hydro-ecological conditions in Carpathian forested mountain fens

Nicia

Bejger

Sterzyńska

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Wetlands Ecol Manage

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The research was designed to assess benefits of passive restoration, consisting of blocking from drainage ditches and in effect raise the groundwater level, its influence on properties of soil, water, species of plants and mesofauna in the fen CalthoAlnetum community. The research was carried out in Outer Flysh Carpathians, the area of the Babiogórski National Park (Poland) in 2011-2014. It was established that the degraded communities showed positive reaction to an attempt to restore the original groundwater level. The increase in the groundwater level changed chemical properties of soil and water of the community such as: pH, sorption properties and the ionic composition of groundwater. Changes in habitat conditions resulted in different species composition of soil mesofauna and plants growing in the restorative community.

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Effect of hydrologic regime and forest age on Collembola in riparian forests

Cited by 27 publications

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Changes through time in soil Collembola communities exposed to urbanization

Changes through time in soil Collembola communities exposed to urbanization

Shifts and linkages of functional diversity between above‐ and below‐ground compartments along a flooding gradient

Restoration of hydro-ecological conditions in Carpathian forested mountain fens

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