Traits of collembolan life-form indicate land use types and soil properties across an European transect

Silva, Pedro Martins da; Carvalho, Filipe; Dirilgen, Tara; Stone, D.; Creamer, Rachel; Bolger, Thomas; Sousa, José Paulo

doi:10.1016/j.apsoil.2015.07.018

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“…Thus, organisms are separated according to their ecomorphological traits and life forms, in order to evaluate their adaptation level to soil life and to overcome the limitations of taxonomic analyses (Parisi et al, 2005). The index was designed with a view to encompass all soil faunal groups (Parisi, 2001;Parisi et al, 2005;Vandewalle et al, 2010;Mohamedova and Lecheva, 2013), but other studies have already adapted and used this methodology to study a specific group of edaphic invertebrates, e.g., springtails (Machado, 2015;Oliveira Filho et al, 2016;Silva et al, 2016), with promising results.…”

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Morphological Diversity of Coleoptera (Arthropoda: Insecta) in Agriculture and Forest Systems

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Coleopterans (Coleoptera) are major ecosystem service providers. However ecomorphological features that are comparable in a wide range of invertebrates within this group and in various environments must be found, to be able to study regions with different species, contributing to overcome difficulties of the taxonomic approach and understand the functioning of ecosystems. This research addressed the diversity of Coleoptera, using a methodology of ecomorphological traits, as well as their relation with the land use systems (LUS) and the soil properties. The following LUS were evaluated: no-tillage (NT), croplivestock integration (CLI), pasture (PA), Eucalyptus stands (EST), and native forest (NF). Samples were collected using a 3 × 3 point grid (sampling points at a distance of 30 m), in winter and summer, in three municipalities on the Southern Santa Catarina Plateau, Brazil. Coleopterans were collected using the methodology recommended by the Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Program, based on the excavation of soil monoliths, and on pitfall traps. To evaluate the biological forms (morphotypes) and ecomorphological groups, the ecomorphological index (EMI) methodology was adopted and the modified soil biological quality (SBQ) index was determined. At the same points, samples were collected to evaluate environmental variables (soil physical, chemical, and microbiological properties). Density data underwent nonparametric univariate statistical analysis and multivariate abundance to verify the distribution of coleopterans in the LUS, and the environmental variables were considered as explanatory. Regardless of the LUS, 14 morphotypes were identified, and adult coleopterans with epigean morphologic adaptations were more abundant than hemi-edaphic and edaphic coleopterans, respectively. Morphotype diversity was higher in the systems NF, EST, and PA in summer and in NT in winter. The reductions in SBQ index were not associated with a gradient of land use intensification (NF> EST> PA> CLI> NT), and the index was higher for NF and lower for EST. Principal component analysis (PCA) indicated a different distribution of invertebrates between the LUS. For the edaphic species, better adapted to life in the soil, a relation with NT and CLI was observed, due to more favorable pH values and phosphorus content. In the NF, a greater amount of morphotypes was identified, and the properties related to soil carbon dynamics contributed to explain this distribution. Separation at the morphotype level, taking adaptation level to soil life into consideration, has proved efficient to discriminate the LUS, mainly along with other explanatory environmental variables.

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Morphological Diversity of Coleoptera (Arthropoda: Insecta) in Agriculture and Forest Systems

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“…In agricultural systems, springtails are sensitive to different soil use practices (Bandyopadhyaya et al, 2002;Sousa et al, 2006;Chang et al, 2013). A few studies have reported on the Collembola community structure in non-inversion deep tillage and conventional plowing (Petersen, 2002a), agricultural land use as arable land, permanent grasslands, shrublands, and woodlands on a slope (Parisi et al, 2005), landscape diversity (Querner et al, 2013), and different land use types (forests, grasslands, and arable lands) (Martins da Silva et al, 2015). However, there is no published study focusing on the structure of the Collembola community in no-tillage and crop-livestock integration.…”

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Collembola Community Structure as a Tool to Assess Land Use Effects on Soil Quality

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“…Originally, as for vascular plants, most studies assessed soil invertebrate responses to their environment classifying organisms based on a priori functional groups such as epigeic, anecic and endogeic groups of earthworms (Bouché 1972), or epiedaphic, hemiedaphic and euedaphic groups of springtails (Gisin 1943). This kind of a priori classification is easier to assess than to measure continuous traits at individual level and, as demonstrated in recent ecological research with soil organisms (Makkonen et al 2011, Fournier et al 2012, Martins da Silva et al 2016, is able to give insights on the response of the soil community to environmental pressures.…”

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“…In soil, most of the studies on traits concentrate on one single taxonomic group (Makkonen et al 2011, Fournier et al 2012, Martins da Silva et al 2016 and there are still few examples of trait-based studies focusing on the community as a whole due to difficulties in finding measurable (and interpretable) common traits for each component of the soil community. However, investigating soil ecosystems from a holistic trait-based perspective offers an interesting opportunity to link the multiple functional responses of the organisms to environmental pressures and to give insight into how the entire community influences ecological processes.…”

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“…As demonstrated in recent ecological research with Collembola (e.g. Makkonen et al, 2011;Martins da Silva et al, 2016;Salmon and Ponge, 2012;Salmon et al, 2014;Santorufo et al, 2015), the study of functional traits distribution allows to identify the response of the community to environmental changes (e.g. land use, soil properties, temperature).…”

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Traits of collembolan life-form indicate land use types and soil properties across an European transect

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