Beta-diversity partitioning approach in soil zoology: A case of Collembola in pine forests

Kuznetsova, Natalia A.; Saraeva, A. K.

doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2017.09.030

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“…0.15–0.25, which are substantially lower than the turnover metrics reported here (Figures and ; Widenfalk et al ; see also Perez et al, ). Similarly, an investigation of springtail diversity among two major areas of Eastern Europe revealed high turnover of springtails, but again across a 1,200 km gradient (Kuznetsova & Saraeva, ). Elsewhere, across the whole of the Antarctic region (including the Southern Ocean Islands), with distances among sites spanning thousands of kilometres (Baird, Janion‐Scheepers, Stevens, Leihy, & Chown, ), turnover values (β sim ) similar to those found here over the much shorter distances we sampled were found.…”

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High spatial turnover in springtails of the Cape Floristic Region

Janion‐Scheepers

Bengtsson

Duffy

et al. 2020

Journal of Biogeography

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Aim:The extraordinary diversity of plants across the Cape Floristic Region is characterized by considerable species turnover among sites. Phytophagous insects show similarly high turnover, but their patterns are closely coupled to those of their hosts.If the mechanisms underlying high plant turnover are not unique to plants, similar patterns of turnover should also be seen in non-herbivorous arthropod groups. We tested this hypothesis using new data for the Collembola fauna of the Fynbos biome. Location:The south-western Cape, South Africa.Taxon: Springtails (Hexapoda: Collembola). Methods:We sampled springtails from six sites over two seasons. Species richness was compared with expected values from other studies worldwide given the environmental characteristics of the sites sampled. Nestedness and turnover components of beta diversity were calculated and compared against beta diversity patterns of springtails across Europe.Results: A total of 114 morphospecies from 14 families was collected. Species richness of Fynbos sites ranged from 14 to 31 species, which was not significantly different to that previously reported for non-Fynbos locations and generally within expectations given the temperature, rainfall and productive energy of each site. Beta diversity was high across all pairwise comparisons of Fynbos sites and dominated by species replacement rather than assemblage nestedness. Relative to the distance between sites, Fynbos assemblages, with a median inter-site distance of 140 km, showed beta diversity substantially higher than in European assemblages, which had a median inter-site distance of 1,270 km. Main conclusions: Alpha diversity of Fynbos Collembola assemblages is in keepingwith species richness expectations. By contrast, beta diversity is high given the small distances among sites and is characterized predominantly by species turnover. These patterns of unremarkable alpha diversity, but high turnover among sites are comparable to many Fynbos plant groups. The mechanisms giving rise to high beta diversity of the plants may also have led to high diversity in other taxa. K E Y W O R D S arthropods, belowground fauna, beta diversity, nestedness, soil diversity, species energy, turnover B I OS K E TCH E S Charlene Janion-Scheepers is interested in the adaptation and plasticity of organisms' responses to climate change and how these responses differ between introduced and indigenous species.

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High spatial turnover in springtails of the Cape Floristic Region

Janion‐Scheepers

Bengtsson

Duffy

et al. 2020

Journal of Biogeography

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“…This means that the so-called process of species sorting (Leibold et al, 2004), according to their adaptation to the properties of various types of forest litter, is less significant for the formation of Collembola diversity in the studied set of forest types compared to the regional species list. It is interesting that in pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) forests, which differ sharply in terms of humidity (an important factor for Collembola), the habitat type is not a limiting factor (Kuznetsova & Saraeva, 2018). In general, the conclusion on direct dependence of difference in species lists on the distance between the sampling areas has been suggested earlier for various groups of terrestrial and aquatic organisms (Kuznetsova & Saraeva, 2018;Takada et al, 2021).…”

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“…The forest type turns out to be more significant than the microhabitat for testate amoebae in protected forests of the Northern Urals (Tsyganov et al, 2015). Various zones of the forest belt made a great contribution to the diversity of Collembola in protected pine forests of the Russian Plain (Kuznetsova & Saraeva, 2018).…”

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A multiscale approach to evaluate the structure of diversity of Collembola in boreo-nemoral forests of the Russian Plain

Vasenkova¹,

Kuznetsova²

2022

Nat. Conserv. Res.

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Collembola is a group of numerous ubiquitous small soil-dwelling arthropods decomposing the plant residues. The study analyses the diversity structure of this group in mesic conditions of coniferous, mixed, and broad-leaved forests. Sample plots were located in three Protected Areas in the Moscow Region (Losiny Ostrov National Park and the Valuyevsky Forest Park) and Smolensk Region (Smolenskoe Poozerye National Park). In total, 70 species of Collembola were registered in the forest litter. Two Collembola species were of Asian origin, namely Appendisotoma stebayevae (noted in Europe for the first time) and Vertagopus asiaticus (the second record of this species in the study area). The number of species was close to the number of genera, indicating the allochthonous character of the forest fauna of Collembola of the central Russian Plain. A multiscale approach was applied for sampling design. This allowed us to assess the diversity of Collembola at various spatial scales: from 1 m to hundreds of kilometres. The study scheme included two regions, four localities, 12 sample sites, and 36 plots; the latter was 1 m2 (the smallest area unit). The data analysis was based on the concept of alpha-beta diversity accompanied by the additive partitioning method. The region (the largest area unit) was the most important factor in forming the species diversity. The type of forest litter (coniferous vs. broad-leaved) was less significant; the habitat heterogeneity factor made even a less contribution. On average, 1 m2 of forest litter comprised about a quarter of the entire list of Collembola species in the studied forests. The species richness of Collembola in the broad-leaved forests was more variable in space and in time compared to coniferous forests and mixed forests; a transitional pattern was observed. The species composition of Collembola varied between the seasons of the year by about a quarter when considering the same sites of coniferous and mixed forests. In broad-leaved forests of various areas, seasonal changes in species composition varied highly, from very pronounced to insignificant. The new concept of plant litter traits is discussed as a factor for affecting the patterns of the structure and dynamics of the Collembola species diversity.

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“…A fractal arrangement of cores allows us to reduce sample effort because the same core is used for the analysis at different scales ( Marsh and Ewers 2012 ). A few cases of applying the approach in soil zoology include testate amoebae ( Tsyganov et al 2014 ), oribatid mites ( Bolger et al 2014 ) and springtails ( Kuznetsova and Saraeva 2018 ). We used the small size of the corer (8 cm 2 in section) to implement special attention on the diversity and spatial structure of the population at the micro level.…”

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The extremely high diversity of Collembola in relict forests of Primorskii Krai of Russia

Kuznetsova¹,

Bokova²,

Kuprin³

et al. 2021

BDJ

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The diversity of soil animals of relict forest ecosystems in East Asia continues to be insufficiently studied and almost not represented in international databases, including GBIF. This article is based on 7550 records of 175 species which were collected in Ussuriiskii, Sikhote-Alinskii and Kedrovaya Pad’ natural reserves of Russian Far East in 2016–2017. A multi-scale sampling design allowed us to estimate population densities and local species richness of Collembola at areas of different sizes. The work continues the digitization of the collections of the Moscow Pedagogical State University (MPSU) and their publication through GBIF.org, which began in 2019. This article is based on original data including 2377 specimens of springtails from eight forests and 648 soil cores. Within the framework of modern taxonomy, this work represents the first publication of lists of Collembola species of forests of Primorsky Krai. The work focused on the relict protected cedar-deciduous forests. Nine species new to science were described and data on the fauna of the region were significantly revised. Considerable contribution was made to the biogeography of Collembola of East Asia. The design of the sampling allowed us to draw conclusions about the species saturation of springtails at various spatial scales within the habitat: from a few square cm to 100 sq. m. Number of species reached record high values reflecting the benchmark state of Collembola communities of undisturbed old temperate forest ecosystems.

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Beta-diversity partitioning approach in soil zoology: A case of Collembola in pine forests

Cited by 13 publications

References 25 publications

High spatial turnover in springtails of the Cape Floristic Region

High spatial turnover in springtails of the Cape Floristic Region

A multiscale approach to evaluate the structure of diversity of Collembola in boreo-nemoral forests of the Russian Plain

The extremely high diversity of Collembola in relict forests of Primorskii Krai of Russia

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