Responses of functional and taxonomic collembolan community structure to site management in Mediterranean urban and surrounding areas

Santorufo, Lucia; Cortet, Jérôme; Nahmani, Johanne; Pernin, Céline; Salmon, Sandrine; Pernot, Audrey; Morel, Jean-Louis; Maisto, Giulia

doi:10.1016/j.ejsobi.2015.07.003

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“…At urban soils a high percentage contribution of arthropods living above the litter was also observed. According to previous studies (Santorufo et al 2014(Santorufo et al , 2015, some groups of arthropods such as Collembola living above the litter appeared to tolerate soil metal pollution as correlations between their abundances and the concentrations of Pb or Zn were found. Conversely, the low percentage contribution of arthropods occupying litter at the urban sites (i.e.…”

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confidence: 84%

“…Understanding the factors that mainly explain arthropod distribution in soils may be useful to preserve biodiversity that is essential in order to guarantee ecological and functional quality of human-managed habitats. According to the findings of a previous study (Santorufo et al 2015), urban and agricultural soils show different physico-chemical characteristics responsible for the abundance of the species and the distribution of functional traits of collembolans. Motivated by these findings, the present study investigated the effects of land uses on the most frequent taxa of soil dwelling arthropods.…”

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confidence: 86%

“…Effects of urbanization on soil arthropods are still controversial. In fact, a decrease of their diversity and abundance has been highlighted in high-polluted soils (McIntyre et al 2001;Eitminaviciute 2006;Gongalsky et al 2010), whereas an increase was observed in urban soils with high organic matter content (Goddard et al 2009;Santorufo et al 2015). Instead, agriculture has been found to affect soil biological diversity at different levels within the soil food web, ranging from the microbial community to arthropods (Wardle 1995;Yeates et al 1997;Behan-Pelletier 2003;Postma-Blaauw et al 2012).…”

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“…During last years, the analysis of functional traits has provided useful information about the effects of environmental stressors, soil quality and human management on soil arthropods. In fact, arthropods, differing in functional traits linked to food and soil microhabitat preferences, vary in responses to several environmental conditions and disturbances (Auclerc et al 2009;V a ndewalle et al 2010; Hedde et al 2012;Santorufo et al 2015).…”

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Relationships among site characteristics, taxonomical structure and functional trait distribution of arthropods in forest, urban and agricultural soils of Southern Italy

Maisto

Milano

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2017

Ecological Research

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Urbanization and agriculture cause alterations in soil biodiversity. As arthropods quickly respond to soil changes, they have been recognized as good indicators of soil quality. This study aimed to evaluate if (1) soil physico‐chemical properties act as environmental filters of the functional trait distribution of soil arthropod community; (2) the abundance of certain functional traits is linked to different land uses; (3) the taxonomical and functional approaches provide complementary information about the evaluation of biological soil quality. The study was performed at forest, agricultural and urban sites in downtown and surroundings of Naples. The soils were characterized for texture, pH, organic matter content, water content, total Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn concentrations. The forest soils showed the highest organic matter and water contents, and the lowest metal concentrations; the agricultural soils showed the lowest organic matter and water contents and high Cd and Cu concentrations, whereas the urban soils showed high Pb and Zn concentrations. The forest soils showed the highest arthropod density, taxa richness and diversity. The distribution of the functional traits in the arthropod communities of the different land uses highlighted similarity only for the preference to occupy soil and for the percentage contribution of detritivores. The abundance of arthropods living above litter and omnivores were positively correlated to Pb and Zn concentrations, whereas predators were positively correlated to Cu concentrations. The findings suggest that the arthropod identification at order level could be enough to detect differences in functional traits among forest, urban, and agricultural soils.

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Relationships among site characteristics, taxonomical structure and functional trait distribution of arthropods in forest, urban and agricultural soils of Southern Italy

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2017

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“…As demonstrated in recent ecological research with Collembola (e.g. Makkonen et al, 2011;Martins da Silva et al, 2016;Salmon and Ponge, 2012;Salmon et al, 2014;Santorufo et al, 2015), the study of functional traits distribution allows to identify the response of the community to environmental changes (e.g. land use, soil properties, temperature).…”

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