Terrestrial and Aquatic Invertebrates as Bioindicators for Environmental Monitoring, with Particular Reference to Mountain Ecosystems

Hodkinson, I. D.; Jackson, John K.

doi:10.1007/s00267-004-0211-x

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“…There is a compelling need for establishing a set of bioindicators and indexes to understand proprieties and monitor changes in the soil organisms. The research challenge is to select biomonitors in situ for a wide range of environmental factors that respond to deteriorating or improving habitat quality linked to changing patterns of land use (Hodkinson and Jackson 2005;Ruf et al 2003).…”

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Soil microarthropod communities from Mediterranean forest ecosystems in Central Italy under different disturbances

Blasi

Menta

Balducci

et al. 2012

Environ Monit Assess

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Soil microarthropod communities from Mediterranean forest ecosystems in Central Italy under different disturbances

Blasi

Menta

Balducci

et al. 2012

Environ Monit Assess

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“…Due to these characteristics of the invertebrate soil community, and for varying in species richness and individual abundance depending on the conservation status of the area, it has been widely used as biological indicator of soil quality (Rovedder et al, 2004;Oliveira & Souto, 2011). Thus, the study of the arthropod fauna provides important information on the soil community, acting as a tool to evaluate the recovery process in areas of ecological restoration (Ruf et al, 2003;Hodkinson & Jackson, 2005;Yi et al, 2006;Hoffmann et al, 2009). …”

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Effect of brushwood transposition on the leaf litter arthropod fauna in a cerrado area

Vergílio¹,

Knoll

Mariano³

et al. 2013

Rev. Bras. Ciênc. Solo

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SUMMARYThe results of ecological restoration techniques can be monitored through biological indicators of soil quality such as the leaf litter arthropod fauna. This study aimed to determine the immediate effect of brushwood transposition transferred from an area of native vegetation to a disturbed area, on the leaf litter arthropod fauna in a degraded cerrado area. The arthropod fauna of four areas was compared: a degraded area with signal grass, two experimental brushwood transposition areas, with and without castor oil plants, and an area of native cerrado. In total, 7,660 individuals belonging to 23 taxa were sampled. Acari and Collembola were the most abundant taxa in all studied areas, followed by Coleoptera, Diptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, and Symphyla. The brushwood transposition area without castor oil plants had the lowest abundance and dominance and the highest diversity of all areas, providing evidence of changes in the soil community. Conversely, the results showed that the presence of castor oil plants hampered early succession, negatively affecting ecological restoration in this area.Index terms: ecological restoration, signal grass, mesofauna, Acari, Collembola.(1) Extracted from the first author's Scientific Initiation submitted to the Department of Biological Sciences, UNESP -Univ Estadual Paulista, Campus

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“…As it was stated in the Introduction, ants are regarded as suitable objects for ecological monitoring (Agosti et al 2000, New 2000, Underwood and Fisher 2006 because of their easy sampling and sensitive indicator character (Andersen 1997, Andersen and Majer 2004, Hoffmann and Andersen 2004, Hodkinson and Jackson 2005, Hoffmann 2010). Monitoring handbooks and manuals (e.g., Elzinga et al 2001, Hill et al 2005, however, frequently disregard ants as an invertebrate reference group.…”

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Climate change impoverishes and homogenizes ants’ community structure: a long term study

Gallé

2017

Community Ecology

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Climate change brings along trend-like changes as well as changes in the temporal variations in environmental conditions which interact with the biological dynamics of ecological systems. Therefore, only studies covering several decades may unveil long term trends in ecological systems, such as in animal communities. To demonstrate if recent climatic changes have caused fundamental changes in the structure of a key arthropod community, I studied the long-term dynamics of ant colonies for 37 years on a sandy grassland in central Hungary. To be able to monitor colonies -the natural units of ant communities -with the possible least disturbance, I applied two grids of a total of 80 slate plates as artificial nesting sites. Prior to the presented study, a well-defined spatial ant community structure had been identified in the studied habitat, which consisted of three species groups (dune top, transitional and dune slack groups), occupying different habitat patches. During the study period 2813 nests of 11 ant species were recorded under the slates. Over the 37 years, community pattern markedly changed, dune slack species disappeared from the studied plots, while the frequency of drought-tolerant dune top species increased by a significant trend. No significant trend was observed in the case of the transitional species group. On the species population level, two species, Lasius niger and Formica cunicularia, showed an intensive population decline; while the Plagiolepis taurica population significantly increased and spatially joined the transitional species group in the dune slack in the second half of the project. These changes led to a major decline in species richness and a homogenization of species composition across habitat patches. Multiple correlation analyses revealed that the depletion of groundwater had the strongest relationship with these population trends. The study indicates that climate change can be linked to a fundamental change in the community structure of major ecosystem actors.

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Terrestrial and Aquatic Invertebrates as Bioindicators for Environmental Monitoring, with Particular Reference to Mountain Ecosystems

Cited by 243 publications

References 172 publications

Soil microarthropod communities from Mediterranean forest ecosystems in Central Italy under different disturbances

Soil microarthropod communities from Mediterranean forest ecosystems in Central Italy under different disturbances

Effect of brushwood transposition on the leaf litter arthropod fauna in a cerrado area

Climate change impoverishes and homogenizes ants’ community structure: a long term study

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