Changes in trait assemblages of oribatid mite communities during natural succession on post-mining sites
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11310/25:10505558
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S116455632500069X?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S116455632500069X?via%3Dihub</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejsobi.2025.103777" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.ejsobi.2025.103777</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Changes in trait assemblages of oribatid mite communities during natural succession on post-mining sites
Original language description
Mining severely impacts ecosystems, yet our understanding of how biotic communities and environmental conditions co-develop during post-disturbance recovery remains limited. This knowledge is crucial for assessing restoration efforts in post-mining sites, which also offer ideal conditions to study how the ecosystem assembles during succession. This is particularly relevant for soil communities that are often overlooked but play a pivotal role in ecological processes. Here we use trait-based approaches to describe the response of soil community adaptations to the changing environment. We used a chronosequence of unreclaimed post-mining sites in the northwest borders of the Czech Republic, spanning four age ranges: 1-10 years, 11-20 years, 21-30 years, and 31-41 years since brown coal extraction. We focused on oribatid mites and assessed community-level trait syndromes using three complementary approaches: functional diversity metrics, RLQ, and fourth corner. We found five traits responding to the environmental gradient: mean body length, concealability, reproductive mode, sensillus shape, and sclerotization. These traits shaped oribatid mite communities in response to specific environmental parameters, revealing distinct groups of pioneers, mid-, and late-colonizers with varying ecological adaptations. Our results indicate that environmental constraints affecting traits separately may homogenise oribatid mite communities into ecomorphological groups during different successional stages. This approach highlights a strong and integral association of oribatid mites with ecosystem development following major disturbance. These outcomes show how soil communities can describe successional trajectories in postmining sites and may thus support the assessment of restoration projects through complementary biomonitoring.
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
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
European Journal of Soil Biology
ISSN
1164-5563
e-ISSN
1778-3615
Volume of the periodical
127
Issue of the periodical within the volume
December
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
103777
UT code for WoS article
001604724300001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105020477987