Journal
PESQUISA AGROPECUARIA BRASILEIRA
Volume 44, Issue 8, Pages 1002-1010Publisher
EMPRESA BRASIL PESQ AGROPEC
DOI: 10.1590/S0100-204X2009000800032
Keywords
behavioral adaptation; ecological adaptation; egg diapause; inundation; morphological adaptation; physiological adaptation
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- Centre for Environmental Research
- Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
- German Research Council (DFG)
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Standard ecological methods (pitfall traps, trunk eclectors and soil cores) were used to evaluate collembolan community responses to different flooding intensities. Three sites of a floodplain habitat near Mainz, Germany, with different flooding regimes were investigated. The structures of collembolan communities are markedly different depending on flooding intensity. Sites more affected by flooding are dominated by hygrophilic and hygrotolerant species, whereas the hardwood floodplain is dominated by mesophilic species. The survival strategies of the hygrophilic and hygrotolerant species include egg diapause and passive drifting. The physiological adaptations to hypoxic conditions of several collembolan species were analyzed using a microcalorimeter. The activities were tested under normoxic and hypoxic/anoxic conditions as well as during post-hypoxic recovery. Lactate was increased after hypoxic intervals in the species studied, suggesting that, in addition to a massive decrease in metabolic rate, a modest glycolytic activity may be involved in the tolerance to hypoxia.
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