“…The loss of vegetal cover reduces the population and variability of species of springtails (Loranger et al, 1998), on the other hand, layers of vegetal cover favor the abundance of springtails (Jandl et al, 2003), due to better survival conditions (Moço et al, 2005), since the vegetal cover serves as a shelter for these organisms (Baretta et al, 2003) and the straw provides food for most organisms that live in the soil (Silva et al, 2006(Silva et al, , 2013, these vegetal cover benefits could explain the greater springtail amounts in the treatments with higher remaining straw, in accordance with the correlation found when treatment 2 was removed. Lucero et al (2020), when evaluating the abundance of soil organisms with five different vegetal coverings, found that springtails were the most abundant organisms in the area with wheat cover and in the turnip/ryegrass consortium, differing from the results found in this study, since the smallest populations of springtails occurred when the predecessor crop was wheat (T2). However, when analyzing the history of predecessor crops to soybean, there is a greater application of phytosanitary products in the wheat crop, mainly fungicides (three applications of Nativo® + Mancozeb®).…”