Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4382209 | Applied Soil Ecology | 2014 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
The effects of broad-leaved trees on the collembolan community in larch plantations were investigated at the foot of Mt. Yatsugatake (1200-1400Â m a.s.l.) in Japan. The study sites comprised five pure larch plantation plots (larch dominated more than 95% of the area at breast height) and five mixed forest plots (larch dominated between 50% and 80% of the area at breast height). We compared the collembolan community structures between stand types and related them to the plant community composition and soil properties at each plot. Density and species richness of Collembola were not significantly different between pure larch and mixed plots. Using partial redundancy analysis (pRDA), the variance of collembolan species data in the litter layer was explained by the biomass of grass on the forest floor, and the variance in the soil layer was explained by the biomass of total forest floor plants. These results suggest that the biomass or the composition of forest floor plants influence the collembolan community more than the crown trees in this area.
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Authors
Motohiro Hasegawa, Aino T. Ota, Daisuke Kabeya, Toru Okamoto, Tomoyuki Saitoh, Yoshihiko Nishiyama,