Assemblages of Collembola across a 130-year chronosequence of beech forest

Abstract: Although microarthropods dominate forest floor faunas in both diversity and abundance, long-term aspects of forest cycles have been widely neglected in soil ecological research in the past. We studied which modifications occurred within collembolan assemblages during a typical beech forest cycle from the north-western part of France. We selected 16 sites representative for four age-classes: 15-year, 65-year, 90-year and 130-year-old stands. Strongly significant effects of the factor ‘age class’ reflect increasing collembolan abundance, biomass and mean species richness throughout the ageing of the forest. However, none of the species could be depicted as an indicator for a specific age-class. Nevertheless, shifts in the relative abundances of dominant or subdominant species were responsible for significant differences between communities of the four successional stages. Our results differ from previous studies, highlighting on the one hand the multiplicity of factors acting on soil.... https://www.soil-organisms.org/index.php/SO/article/view/261

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Assemblages of Collembola across a 130-year chronosequence of beech forest ; volume:83 ; number:3 ; year:2011 ; Soil organisms ; 83, Heft 3 (2011)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Chauvat, Matthieu ; Trap, Jean ; Perez, Gabriel ; Delporte , Philippe ; Aubert, Michaël

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023080204255690117582
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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