Management intensity affects traits of soil microarthropod community in montane spruce forest

Farská, Jitka; Prejzková, Kristýna; Rusek, Josef

doi:10.1016/j.apsoil.2013.11.003

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“…), such as the responses of springtails to climate (Makkonen et al . ) or those of oribatid mites and springtails communities to management intensity (Farska, Prejzkova & Rusek ). Farska, Prejzkova & Rusek () showed that feeding guilds and reproduction mode were useful functional traits to observe changes in mesofauna communities in response to land management intensity.…”

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Plant secondary metabolites: a key driver of litter decomposition and soil nutrient cycling

Chomel

Guittonny-Larchevêque

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International audienceA broad and diversified group of compounds, secondary metabolites, are known to govern species interactions in ecosystems. Recent studies have shown that secondary metabolites can also play a major role in ecosystem processes, such as plant succession or in the process of litter decomposition, by governing the interplay between plant matter and soil organisms. We reviewed the ecological role of the three main classes of secondary metabolites and the methodological challenges and novel avenues for their study. We highlight emerging general patterns of the impacts of secondary metabolites on decomposer communities and litter decomposition and argue for the consideration of secondary compounds as key drivers of soil functioning and ecosystem functioning.Synthesis. Gaining a greater understanding of plant-soil organisms relationships and underlying mechanisms, including the role of secondary metabolites, could improve our ability to understand ecosystem processes. We outline some promising directions for future research that would stimulate studies aiming to understand the interactions of secondary metabolites across a range of spatio-temporal scales. Detailed mechanistic knowledge could help us to develop models for the process of litter decomposition and nutrient cycling in ecosystems and help us to predict future impacts of global changes on ecosystem functioning

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Plant secondary metabolites: a key driver of litter decomposition and soil nutrient cycling

Chomel

Guittonny-Larchevêque

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“…These invertebrates, with different proportion and function, maintain soil fertility through their interaction with each other and microbial community (Bardgett 2005;Bardgett et al 2005;Lavelle et al 2006). However, soil invertebrates population are sensitive to changes in plant cover (Barros et al 2003), management regime (Aquino et al 2008;Farska et al 2014;Zaitsev et al 2014), and microclimate (Vasconcelos et al 2009). …”

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Soil invertebrate diversity in coffee-pine agroforestry system at Sumedang, West Java

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Abstract. Kinasih I, Cahyanto T, Widiana A, Kurnia DNI, Julita C, Putra RE. 2016. Soil invertebrate diversity in coffee-pine agroforestry system at Sumedang,. In order to maintain natural habitat while provide economic benefit for community near forest, some agroforestry systems were developed. This system depends on service provided by ecosystem such as nutrient cycling by soil invertebrates. One of important factors of healthy ecosystem services at particular agroecosystem is local biodiversity of the area. In this study we carried out biodiversity survey of soil invertebrates at local coffee -pine agroforestry system at Rancakalong Sub-district, Sumedang District, West Java, Indonesia. Soil invertebrates were collected from coffee plantation, coffee and pine (Pinus merkusii) plantation and pine plantation by 40 pitfall trap per location. Results showed the highest abundance was recorded at coffee plantation (2477 individuals) and the lowest was at pine plantation (1372 individuals). All collected soil invertebrates grouped into 3 classes (Arachnida, Chilopoda and Insecta), 16 orders, 47 families, and 124 morphospecies. Soil invertebrates were dominated by Formicidae, Scarabaeidae, Blattidae, Forficulidae, and Phalangiidae. The average diversity index of soil invertebrates was 2.25 (coffee plantation), 2.64 (coffee and pine plantation) and 1.85 (pine plantation). The evenness value was 0.30 (coffee plantation), 0.49 (coffee and pine plantation) and 0.39 (pine plantation). This study showed agroforestry may improve soil invertebrate abundance and diversity of monoculture pine forest through creation of additional and alternative nutrition and microhabitats.

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“…In our study, abundance and richness of oribatids were greatly reduced compared to other temperate and boreal forest ecosystems, e.g., [42][43][44]. For particular taxonomic groups of arthropods such as ground beetles, black spruce forests undergoing paludification have markedly reduced densities [45,46].…”

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Localized Effects of Coarse Woody Material on Soil Oribatid Communities Diminish over 700 Years of Stand Development in Black-Spruce-Feathermoss Forests

Doblas‐Miranda

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Abstract:In the black-spruce clay-belt region of Western Québec, soil nutrients are limited due to paludification. Under paludified conditions, nutrient subsidies from decomposing surface coarse woody material (CWM) may be important particularly during the later stages of ecosystem development when deadwood from senescent trees has accumulated. For soil organisms, CWM can alter microclimatic conditions and resource availability. We compared abundance and species richness of oribatid mites below or adjacent to CWM across a chronosequence which spans ca. 700 years of stand development. We hypothesized that oribatid abundance and richness would be greater under the logs, particularly in later stages of forest development when logs may act as localized sources of carbon and nutrients in the paludified substrate. However, oribatid density was lower directly under CWM than adjacent to CWM but these differences were attenuated with time. We suggest that oribatids may be affected by soil compaction and also that such microarthropods are most likely feeding on recently fallen leaf litter, which may be rendered inaccessible by the presence of overlying CWM. This may also explain the progressive decline in oribatid density and diversity with time, which are presumably caused by decreases in litter availability due to self-thinning and Sphagnum growth. This is also supported by changes of different oribatid trophic groups, as litter feeders maintain different numbers relative to CWM with time while more generalist fungi feeders only show differences related to position in the beginning of the succession. OPEN ACCESSForests 2015, 6 915

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Management intensity affects traits of soil microarthropod community in montane spruce forest

Cited by 43 publications

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Plant secondary metabolites: a key driver of litter decomposition and soil nutrient cycling

Plant secondary metabolites: a key driver of litter decomposition and soil nutrient cycling

Soil invertebrate diversity in coffee-pine agroforestry system at Sumedang, West Java

Localized Effects of Coarse Woody Material on Soil Oribatid Communities Diminish over 700 Years of Stand Development in Black-Spruce-Feathermoss Forests

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