Changes in trait assemblages of oribatid mite communities during natural succession on post-mining sites

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RIV/00216208:11310/25:10505558

Výsledek na webu

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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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Changes in trait assemblages of oribatid mite communities during natural succession on post-mining sites

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Changes in trait assemblages of oribatid mite communities during natural succession on post-mining sites

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

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

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

European Journal of Soil Biology

ISSN

1164-5563

e-ISSN

1778-3615

Svazek periodika

127

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

December

Stát vydavatele periodika

NL - Nizozemsko

Počet stran výsledku

10

Strana od-do

103777

Kód UT WoS článku

001604724300001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105020477987