Micro-arthropod community responses to ecosystem retrogression in boreal forest

Explaining the variation in communities of soil organisms across plant communities or ecosystems remains a major challenge for ecologists. Several studies have explored how soil communities are affected along ecosystem successional gradients but most of these are based on relatively short term chron...

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Published in:Soil Biology and Biochemistry
Main Authors: Bokhorst, Stef, Berg, Matty P., Wardle, David A.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2017
Subjects:
Acari
Biodiversity
Collembola
Chronosequence
Community assembly
Fire
Functional traits
Oribatid mites
Succession
LONG-TERM SUCCESSION
SOIL FOOD-WEB
CARBON SEQUESTRATION
PLANT DIVERSITY
ISLAND AREA
DECOMPOSITION
TRAIT
Northern Sweden
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/11370/5f77443b-f138-42bb-8193-7c614e4f6111
https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/5f77443b-f138-42bb-8193-7c614e4f6111
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2017.03.009
https://pure.rug.nl/ws/files/97543760/1_s2.0_S0038071716304941_main.pdf
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Summary:Explaining the variation in communities of soil organisms across plant communities or ecosystems remains a major challenge for ecologists. Several studies have explored how soil communities are affected along ecosystem successional gradients but most of these are based on relatively short term chronosequences. To address the impact of ecosystem age on micro-arthropod communities, we utilized a 5000 year old post-fire chronosequence, which consists of thirty lake islands differing greatly in time since fire in the boreal forested zone of northern Sweden. The Acari community did not change along this chronosequence, indicating that Acari rapidly(

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