Understanding earthworm – Collembola interactions and their importance for ecosystem processes needs consideration of species identity

Grubert, Diana; Butenschoen, Olaf; Maraun, Mark; Scheu, Stefan

doi:10.1016/j.ejsobi.2016.10.001

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“…more cocoons were produced by A. caliginosa in the presence of L. terrestris, which could be a facilitation effect. Grubert et al (2016), in contrast to our results, found a body weight gain of A. caliginosa of about 104% in the presence of L. terrestris. In temperate arable soils, A. caliginosa is the most common earthworm species (Crittenden et al, 2014;Frazão et al, 2017, chapter 2) and it is often assumed that it is stimulated by the incorporation of surface residues by conventional ploughing (Chan, 2001;de Oliveira et al, 2012).…”

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Earthworm communities in arable land : effects of crop residue management and field margins

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Earthworm communities in arable land : effects of crop residue management and field margins

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Frederica²

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“…When Collembola density was low (soils A, B and E), the macro-decomposer proportion increased thanks to higher resource quantity and quality. For example, Grubert et al (2016) recently found that the earthworm Lumbricus terrestris reduced the availability of litter nitrogen to other soil animal detritivores, in particular to Collembola Heteromurus nitidus.…”

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Assessment of derelict soil quality: Abiotic, biotic and functional approaches

Vincent

Auclerc

Béguiristain

et al. 2018

Science of The Total Environment

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The intensification and subsequent closing down of industrial activities during the last century has left behind large surfaces of derelict lands. Derelict soils have low fertility, can be contaminated, and many of them remain unused. However, with the increasing demand of soil surfaces, they might be considered as a resource, for example for non-food biomass production. The study of their physico-chemical properties and of their biodiversity and biological activity may provide indications for their potential re-use. The objective of our study was to investigate the quality of six derelict soils, considering abiotic, biotic, and functional parameters. We studied (i) the soil bacteria, fungi, meso- and macro-fauna and plant communities of six different derelict soils (two from coking plants, one from a settling pond, two constructed ones made from different substrates and remediated soil, and an inert waste storage one), and (ii) their decomposition function based on the decomposer trophic network, enzyme activities, mineralization activity, and organic pollutant degradation. Biodiversity levels in these soils were high, but all biotic parameters, except the mycorrhizal colonization level, discriminated them. Multivariate analysis showed that biotic parameters co-varied more with fertility proxies than with soil contamination parameters. Similarly, functional parameters significantly co-varied with abiotic parameters. Among functional parameters, macro-decomposer proportion, enzyme activity, average mineralization capacity, and microbial polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon degraders were useful to discriminate the soils. We assessed their quality by combining abiotic, biotic, and functional parameters: the compost-amended constructed soil displayed the highest quality, while the settling pond soil and the contaminated constructed soil displayed the lowest. Although differences among the soils were highlighted, this study shows that derelict soils may provide a biodiversity ecosystem service and are functional for decomposition.

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“…In our study, we were able to show (at least within the limits of our environmental records) that 'terril' effects on traits, and not successional effects, were mediated by soil (in particular coarser texture), which would have been more difficult to show with the only help of species composition. Thus collembolan functional traits, despite still insufficient knowledge about trait/function relationships (Grubert et al, 2016), may allow disentangling spatial and environmental effects more easily than species.…”

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The ‘terril’ effect: Coal mine spoil tips select for collembolan functional traits in post-mining landscapes of northern France

Vanhee

Salmon

Devigne

et al. 2017

Applied Soil Ecology

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We sampled collembolan communities in 11 coal mine spoil tips (locally called 'terrils') from the North of France, and their surroundings, in various stages of vegetation development (bare soil, herb, shrub and tree vegetation). We wondered whether species, functional trait (Community Weighted Mean trait or CWM) composition and trait diversity (Rao's quadratic entropy) responded to the particular environment of coal mine spoil tips (here called 'terril' effect) and to successional effects and which of these three sets was the best indicator of soil and vegetation effects, taking into account that spoil tips were spatially distant and idiosyncratic (e.g. varying in height, area, past

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Understanding earthworm – Collembola interactions and their importance for ecosystem processes needs consideration of species identity

Cited by 14 publications

References 35 publications

Earthworm communities in arable land : effects of crop residue management and field margins

Earthworm communities in arable land : effects of crop residue management and field margins

Assessment of derelict soil quality: Abiotic, biotic and functional approaches

The ‘terril’ effect: Coal mine spoil tips select for collembolan functional traits in post-mining landscapes of northern France

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