Land Use Changes and Landscape Degradation in Central and Eastern Europe in the Last Decades: Epigeic Invertebrates as Bioindicators of Landscape Changes

Boháč, Jaroslav; Jahnová, Zuzana

doi:10.1007/978-94-017-9499-2_24

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“…Authors also confirmed higher number of Acarina in soil with shallow ploughing than in soil with deep ploughing applied. According to Boháč et al (2015), the Coleoptera represents a large and functionally dominant group of soil macrofauna, which sensitively reacts to anthropogenic activity in forest but also in non-forest habitats. Coleoptera, especially Carabidae, represent an important bioindicating organisms in both artificial and natural ecosystems.…”

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Impact of Soil Management on Biodiversity of Epigeic Groups

Porhajašová¹

2019

Appl. Ecol. Env. Res.

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The aim of this study was to assess the effect of ecological and integrated farming on the occurrence of epigeic animal groups. The earth trap method was used, were exposed in Pisum sativum and Hordeum vulgare. The experiment was performed from 2015 to 2017 at the research fields of the Plant Biology and Ecology Centre in Nitra. During the three-year period, 11,866 exemplars were collected from 21 taxonomic groups. Under integrated farming of 5,456 exemplars belonging to 20 groups were collected, in the ecological farming of 6,410 exemplars belonging to 19 groups were collected. The decreasing tendency of abundance in most groups was recorded. Both types of farming showed the Coleoptera, Acarina, Araneida, Collembola as the highly dominant groups. The Opilionida occurred subdominantly. The occurrence of others was recedent or subrecedent. The presence of these animal groups in the agroecosystem increases its biodiversity. The impact of cultivated crops, temperature and type of farming on occurrence of animal epigeic groups was significant. The impact of precipitation was non-significant. The faunistic similarity was of 85.71%, the identity of dominancy was of 95.57%. The highest value of diversity was recorded in the integrated farming with Pisum sativum, in ecological farming with Hordeum vulgare.

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Impact of Soil Management on Biodiversity of Epigeic Groups

Porhajašová¹

2019

Appl. Ecol. Env. Res.

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“…(2010) found the same fact in agrarian land. Coleoptera represent the dominant group of soil macrofauna, reacting rapidly to anthropogenic activities Boháč et al (2015). The Carabidae family from the Coleoptera family is most often used as a bioindicative.…”

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Dispersion of the epigeic fauna groups in the agricultural landscape

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Changes in the structure of epigeic animal groups indicate ecological stability, which are influenced by urbanization, agriculture, and forestry. The aim of the paper was to assess the impact of agrarian land in the vicinity of urban and suburban landscape and non-fragmented forest in the vicinity of rural landscape on the occurrence of epigeic groups. We recorded the pitfall traps - 19, 676 individuals belonging to 20 taxonomic groups at 9 localities representing 7 types of habitat. Our results indicate a year-on-year increase in the number of individuals of epigeic groups in the city, with surrounding agrarian land. We found a correlation between eudominant epigeic groups of Aranea and Hymenoptera and rural landscape with the non-fragmented surrounding. Coleoptera has shown a link between the conditions of urban and suburban landscape with the surrounding developed agriculture. We confirmed a statistically significant effect for luminosity (p = 0.002), humidity (p = 0.025) and pH (p = 0.017).

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“…In particular, their wide range of diet strategies includes general herbivores, predators, and flower or fungus specialists. Some beetle species are used as bioindicators (Bohác & Jahnova, 2015;Kosewska, Skalski, & Nietupski, 2014;Rainio & Niemelä, 2003), in particular with respect to the impacts of pesticides (Hedde et al, 2015;Huusela-Veistola, 1996;Merivee, Tooming, Must, Sibul, & Williams, 2015).…”

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