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Response of Collembola and Acari communities to summer flooding in a grassland plant diversity experiment

Flooding frequency is predicted to increase during the next decades in Europe. Therefore, it is important to understand how short-term disturbance events affect soil biota providing essential ecosystem functions and uncover factors modulating their response such as plant community composition. Here...

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Autores principales: González-Macé, Odette, Scheu, Stefan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6117009/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30161191
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202862
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description Flooding frequency is predicted to increase during the next decades in Europe. Therefore, it is important to understand how short-term disturbance events affect soil biota providing essential ecosystem functions and uncover factors modulating their response such as plant community composition. Here we report on the response of soil microarthropod communities (Collembola and Acari) to a severe summer flood in 2013, which affected major parts of central Europe. Collembola and Acari density and Collembola and Oribatida richness were strongly affected by the flood, but they recovered within three months. Effects of plant community composition on soil microarthropods disappeared after the flood, presumably due to homogenization of the field, but the effects of plant community were in a stage of being reasserted three months after the flood. Widespread, surface living and generalistic microarthropod species recolonized the field quickly. Prostigmata and Oribatida were more resilient or recovered to flooding than Astigmata and Gamasida. Long-term impacts, however, remain unknown and deserve further investigation.
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spelling pubmed-61170092018-09-16 Response of Collembola and Acari communities to summer flooding in a grassland plant diversity experiment González-Macé, Odette Scheu, Stefan PLoS One Research Article Flooding frequency is predicted to increase during the next decades in Europe. Therefore, it is important to understand how short-term disturbance events affect soil biota providing essential ecosystem functions and uncover factors modulating their response such as plant community composition. Here we report on the response of soil microarthropod communities (Collembola and Acari) to a severe summer flood in 2013, which affected major parts of central Europe. Collembola and Acari density and Collembola and Oribatida richness were strongly affected by the flood, but they recovered within three months. Effects of plant community composition on soil microarthropods disappeared after the flood, presumably due to homogenization of the field, but the effects of plant community were in a stage of being reasserted three months after the flood. Widespread, surface living and generalistic microarthropod species recolonized the field quickly. Prostigmata and Oribatida were more resilient or recovered to flooding than Astigmata and Gamasida. Long-term impacts, however, remain unknown and deserve further investigation. Public Library of Science 2018-08-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6117009/ /pubmed/30161191 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202862 Text en © 2018 González-Macé, Scheu http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_full Response of Collembola and Acari communities to summer flooding in a grassland plant diversity experiment
title_fullStr Response of Collembola and Acari communities to summer flooding in a grassland plant diversity experiment
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title_short Response of Collembola and Acari communities to summer flooding in a grassland plant diversity experiment
title_sort response of collembola and acari communities to summer flooding in a grassland plant diversity experiment
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6117009/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30161191
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202862
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