期刊
ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH
卷 53, 期 1, 页码 288-299出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/15230430.2021.1982665
关键词
European Alps; mesofauna; macrofauna; soil parameters; snowbeds
资金
- European Union
- Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Regions and Tourism via National Park Hohe Tauern [7.6.1b-I824/16]
This study focused on the abundance, diversity, and composition of soil invertebrates along snowmelt gradients in the European Alps. Soil conditions and time of snowmelt were not correlated with densities of soil animals, indicating that variations in soil organic matter and sand content had little effect on soil invertebrates in snowbed habitats. Invertebrate species assemblages in snowbeds along the west-east transect of the European Alps were found to be rather similar.
We studied abundance, diversity, and composition of soil invertebrates along snowmelt gradients to generally understand how soil animal communities are responding to life conditions across snowbeds along a west-east transect of the European Alps and to create a reference inventory for future investigations of climate change effects on snowbed habitats. We extracted microarthropods (collembolans, oribatid mites) and macroinvertebrates (spiders, beetles, insect larvae) from soil cores taken from three sections along the snowmelt gradient: high (early snowmelt), middle, and low (late snowmelt) sections. Linear models showed no correlations between either soil conditions or time of snowmelt and densities of soil animals. A small, though statistically significant, variation in the generally high soil organic matter and sand contents and high porosity of snowbed soils seems to have no effect on soil invertebrates. Species found along the snowmelt gradient were in similar shares generalist and specialist species. Microarthropod community composition in general was driven by soil porosity and soil organic matter content; for macroinvertebrate community composition we found no specific driver. We conclude that invertebrate species assemblages in snowbeds are rather similar in the European Alps.
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