Soil fauna development during heathland restoration from arable land: Role of soil modification and material transplant
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60077344%3A_____%2F22%3A00557158" target="_blank" >RIV/60077344:_____/22:00557158 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11310/22:10445579
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925857421003864?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925857421003864?via%3Dihub</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2021.106531" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.ecoleng.2021.106531</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Soil fauna development during heathland restoration from arable land: Role of soil modification and material transplant
Original language description
Heathlands are threatened habitats throughout the whole Europe, which have initiated numerous restoration programmes aimed mostly at plant community reconstruction, however, little is known about soil fauna restoration. Here we have studied newly established wet and dry heathlands in the Netherlands after topsoil removal of previously agricultural land, where we manipulated the soil pH (acidification by Sulphur or liming by Ca ions as Dolokal) and introduced plant or soil material to speed up the restoration process. We sampled experimental plots and nearby mature heathlands (used as local reference habitat) over five years (2013–2017) for nematodes, mesofauna (mainly springtails and mites) and macrofauna. Although soil inoculation proved to be a substantive step in target plant community development and also helped to shift soil faunal assemblages towards the target, the latter were still far from reference heathland after five years. Only macrofaunal densities showed similar densities in 2017 as in local reference spots. The succession dynamics of all studied groups and trophic composition of macrofauna and nematodes differed in wet and dry heathlands. Soil amendments improved the initial colonisation as well as liming at the wet sites, which probably created suitable microhabitats for soil fauna development.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10618 - Ecology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Ecological Engineering
ISSN
0925-8574
e-ISSN
1872-6992
Volume of the periodical
176
Issue of the periodical within the volume
March
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
106531
UT code for WoS article
000807886600018
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85122126057