کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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4392640 | 1618176 | 2006 | 4 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
The aim of the study reported here was to assess the impact of climate continentality across Europe on the structure and diversity of oribatid communities. Five sites were chosen along a West–East transect from The Netherlands to the Moscow region in Russia in the zone of deciduous forest. Our results suggest that at the chosen scale climate has a moderate impact on abundance and biomass of oribatid communities. However there is a clear impact of continentality on the functional structure and diversity of oribatid populations expressed as the increase of soil-dwelling species abundance towards the East and the decrease of litter-dwellers. There are also strong indications of a gradual faunistic shift along the transect. Soil type plays a modulating role in oribatid communities composition and species richness.
Journal: European Journal of Soil Biology - Volume 42, Supplement 1, November 2006, Pages S358–S361