Warming shifts the biomass distribution of soil microarthropod communities
Climate warming is often more detrimental to large body sized organisms than small body sized organisms. Yet, how such differential effects of warming at organismal levels affect aggregate community properties, such as community biomass, remains little understood. Here, using geothermally warmed sub...
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ftunivbern:oai:boris.unibe.ch:175795 2023-08-20T04:04:37+02:00 Warming shifts the biomass distribution of soil microarthropod communities Thakur, Madhav P Sigurðsson, Bjarni D. Sigurðsson, Pall Holmstrup, Martin 2023-02 application/pdf https://boris.unibe.ch/175795/1/1-s2.0-S0038071722003510-main.pdf https://boris.unibe.ch/175795/ eng eng Elsevier https://boris.unibe.ch/175795/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Thakur, Madhav P; Sigurðsson, Bjarni D.; Sigurðsson, Pall; Holmstrup, Martin (2023). Warming shifts the biomass distribution of soil microarthropod communities. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 177, p. 108894. Elsevier 10.1016/j.soilbio.2022.108894 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2022.108894> 570 Life sciences biology info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion PeerReviewed 2023 ftunivbern https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2022.108894 2023-07-31T22:17:48Z Climate warming is often more detrimental to large body sized organisms than small body sized organisms. Yet, how such differential effects of warming at organismal levels affect aggregate community properties, such as community biomass, remains little understood. Here, using geothermally warmed sub-Arctic grassland soils, we investigate how total biomass (product of density and individual body mass) of two major groups of soil microarthropods (Collembola and mites), which are composed of both large and small body sized species, shift in warmed soils when warmed by ∼3–∼6 °C. Our results show that total biomass of Collembola significantly decreased in warmed soils predominantly due to a decline in the density of large body sized species. In contrast, total mite biomass showed a unimodal response to warming. As a result, there was a shift towards mite biomass dominated microarthropod communities in warmed soils. Within Collembola, the deep soil living eu-edaphic functional group declined the most in total biomass, whereas the unimodal response in mites was most pronounced in oribatid mites. Our study highlights that warming induced shifts in total community biomass of soil microarthropods are likely due to greater detrimental effects of warming on several large body sized Collembola. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Mite BORIS (Bern Open Repository and Information System, University of Bern) Arctic Soil Biology and Biochemistry 177 108894 |
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Climate warming is often more detrimental to large body sized organisms than small body sized organisms. Yet, how such differential effects of warming at organismal levels affect aggregate community properties, such as community biomass, remains little understood. Here, using geothermally warmed sub-Arctic grassland soils, we investigate how total biomass (product of density and individual body mass) of two major groups of soil microarthropods (Collembola and mites), which are composed of both large and small body sized species, shift in warmed soils when warmed by ∼3–∼6 °C. Our results show that total biomass of Collembola significantly decreased in warmed soils predominantly due to a decline in the density of large body sized species. In contrast, total mite biomass showed a unimodal response to warming. As a result, there was a shift towards mite biomass dominated microarthropod communities in warmed soils. Within Collembola, the deep soil living eu-edaphic functional group declined the most in total biomass, whereas the unimodal response in mites was most pronounced in oribatid mites. Our study highlights that warming induced shifts in total community biomass of soil microarthropods are likely due to greater detrimental effects of warming on several large body sized Collembola. |
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Thakur, Madhav P; Sigurðsson, Bjarni D.; Sigurðsson, Pall; Holmstrup, Martin (2023). Warming shifts the biomass distribution of soil microarthropod communities. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 177, p. 108894. Elsevier 10.1016/j.soilbio.2022.108894 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2022.108894> |
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