Tracking earthworm fluxes at the interface between tree rows and crop habitats in a Mediterranean alley cropping field

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=6NdQfWO9eU" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=6NdQfWO9eU</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejsobi.2023.103572" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.ejsobi.2023.103572</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Tracking earthworm fluxes at the interface between tree rows and crop habitats in a Mediterranean alley cropping field

Original language description

Alley cropping is the combination of tree rows and crop alleys. The tree row is covered by an understory vegetation strip (UVS), providing a beneficial habitat for many soil fauna, which could disperse through spillover to the crop alleys. However, such movements have never been directly studied. Our experiment investigated earthworm fluxes in the tree row vicinity using a trap technique, in a Mediterranean agroforestry alley cropping field cultivated with peas and planted with walnut trees. We assessed earthworm density at different distances from the UVS (0 m, 0.3 m, 1 m and 6 m) by hand sorting soil monoliths (25*25*30 cm) in spring 2019, at the start and the end of a two-month experiment. During this period, we detected earthworm fluxes by placing directional traps at 30 cm from the UVS border. Traps consisted of three glued plastic walls placed vertically in the soil. They delimited a soil block of 25*25 cm by 20 cm depth and were open on one side. More epigeic earthworms were found in the UVS and up to 30 cm from the UVS border than in the middle of the crop alley. By contrast, the earthworm Allolobophora chlorotica presented a homogeneous distribution in the plot. Trapped earthworms were mostly of the All. chlorotica species, and 1.6 times more earthworms were found in traps open towards the crop alley than in traps open towards the UVS. These results suggest that in spring, earthworms are moving more from the crop alley towards the UVS than in the other direction, probably using the tree row and its vicinity as a refuge against adverse summer conditions in the crop alley.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

European Journal of Soil Biology

ISSN

1164-5563

e-ISSN

1778-3615

Volume of the periodical

120

Issue of the periodical within the volume

March

Country of publishing house

FR - FRANCE

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

103572

UT code for WoS article

001131881900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85178360144