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DIVERSITY-BASEL
卷 13, 期 6, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/d13060242
关键词
inversed scree slope; vertical distribution; microclimate; psychrophilic species; climatic relicts
资金
- Slovak Scientific Grant Agency [VEGA 1/0346/18]
- Slovak Research and Development Agency [APPV-17-0477]
The study conducted at two microclimatically inversed scree slope sites in a deep karst valley in Slovakia revealed significant temperature differences in warm and cold periods of the year, impacting the distribution and abundance of Collembola species. The gorge bottom provided suitable environmental conditions for cold-adapted and subterranean species, serving as important climate change refugia.
The community patterns of Collembola (Hexapoda) were studied at two sites along a microclimatically inversed scree slope in a deep karst valley in the Western Carpathians, Slovakia, in warm and cold periods of the year, respectively. Significantly lower average temperatures in the scree profile were noted at the gorge bottom in both periods, meaning that the site in the lower part of the scree, near the bank of creek, was considerably colder and wetter compared to the warmer and drier site at upper part of the scree slope. Relatively high diversity of Collembola was observed at two fieldwork scree sites, where cold-adapted species, considered climatic relicts, showed considerable abundance. The gorge bottom, with a cold and wet microclimate and high carbon content even in the deeper MSS horizons, provided suitable environmental conditions for numerous psychrophilic and subterranean species. Ecological groups such as trogloxenes and subtroglophiles showed decreasing trends of abundance with depth, in contrast to eutroglophiles and a troglobiont showing an opposite distributional pattern at scree sites in both periods. Our study documented that in terms of soil and subterranean mesofauna, colluvial screes of deep karst gorges represent (1) a transition zone between the surface and the deep subterranean environment, and (2) important climate change refugia.
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