Ecomorphological groups in oribatid mite communities shift with time after topsoil removal-Insight from multi-trait approaches during succession in restored heathlands

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<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60077344%3A_____%2F23%3A00575123" target="_blank" >RIV/60077344:_____/23:00575123 - isvavai.cz</a>

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/00216208:11310/23:10467869

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0929139323002445?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0929139323002445?via%3Dihub</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2023.105046" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.apsoil.2023.105046</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Ecomorphological groups in oribatid mite communities shift with time after topsoil removal-Insight from multi-trait approaches during succession in restored heathlands

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Restoration of nutrient-enriched heathlands and similar dry habitats via topsoil removal requires the re-assembly of above and belowground communities to attain fully functional ecosystems. Top-soil removal provides unique opportunities to study the assembly processes, but research has traditionally focused on succession of the aboveground part of the ecosystem. Oribatid mites are a dominant group of soil mesofauna in the belowground part of heathlands. They possess attributes for bioindication and have shown high sensitivity to environmental changes during succession. However, few studies have focused on changes in functional community profiles and the factors shaping them with time. We sampled heathlands of different restoration ages located in East Belgium, studied traits of oribatid mite communities of a chronosequence, and assessed the interaction between traits and abiotic variables using community weighted means (CWM) and an iterative co-correlation analysis between abiotic parameters, species trait attributes and species abundances (iterative RLQ analysis). Our study suggests that moisture preferences, concealability (i.e. defence mechanism against desiccation and predation), and body length were the dominant traits structuring the oribatid mite communities. We found that both dispersal and environmental filters shape the assembly of oribatid mite communities, but these drivers dominate different stages of succession. Moreover, trait assemblages deriving from three well-defined eco-morphological groups closely followed these constraints in time. Thus, the shifting dominance of specific groups provides valuable insight on the soil community functioning in a changing environment.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Ecomorphological groups in oribatid mite communities shift with time after topsoil removal-Insight from multi-trait approaches during succession in restored heathlands

Popis výsledku anglicky

Restoration of nutrient-enriched heathlands and similar dry habitats via topsoil removal requires the re-assembly of above and belowground communities to attain fully functional ecosystems. Top-soil removal provides unique opportunities to study the assembly processes, but research has traditionally focused on succession of the aboveground part of the ecosystem. Oribatid mites are a dominant group of soil mesofauna in the belowground part of heathlands. They possess attributes for bioindication and have shown high sensitivity to environmental changes during succession. However, few studies have focused on changes in functional community profiles and the factors shaping them with time. We sampled heathlands of different restoration ages located in East Belgium, studied traits of oribatid mite communities of a chronosequence, and assessed the interaction between traits and abiotic variables using community weighted means (CWM) and an iterative co-correlation analysis between abiotic parameters, species trait attributes and species abundances (iterative RLQ analysis). Our study suggests that moisture preferences, concealability (i.e. defence mechanism against desiccation and predation), and body length were the dominant traits structuring the oribatid mite communities. We found that both dispersal and environmental filters shape the assembly of oribatid mite communities, but these drivers dominate different stages of succession. Moreover, trait assemblages deriving from three well-defined eco-morphological groups closely followed these constraints in time. Thus, the shifting dominance of specific groups provides valuable insight on the soil community functioning in a changing environment.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10618 - Ecology

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Applied Soil Ecology

ISSN

0929-1393

e-ISSN

1873-0272

Svazek periodika

191

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

November

Stát vydavatele periodika

NL - Nizozemsko

Počet stran výsledku

10

Strana od-do

105046

Kód UT WoS článku

001043828400001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85164673428