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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Diversity and functional structure of soil animal communities suggest soil animal food webs to be buffered against changes in forest land use
Beteiligte:
Pollierer, Melanie M.;
Klarner, Bernhard;
Ott, David;
Digel, Christoph;
Ehnes, Roswitha B.;
Eitzinger, Bernhard;
Erdmann, Georgia;
Brose, Ulrich;
Maraun, Mark;
Scheu, Stefan
Erschienen:
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021
Erschienen in:
Oecologia, 196 (2021) 1, Seite 195-209
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1007/s00442-021-04910-1
ISSN:
0029-8549;
1432-1939
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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Forest soil and litter is inhabited by a diverse community of animals, which directly and indirectly rely on dead organic matter as habitat and food resource. However, community composition may be driven by biotic or abiotic forces, and these vary with changes in habitat structure and resource supply associated with forest land use. To evaluate these changes, we compiled comprehensive data on the species composition of soil animal communities and environmental factors in forest types varying in land-use intensity in each of three regions in Germany, i.e., coniferous, young managed, old managed, and unmanaged beech forests. Coniferous forests featured high amounts of leaf litter and low microbial biomass concentrations contrasting in particular unmanaged beech forests. However, soil animal diversity and functional community composition differed little between forest types, indicating resilience against disturbance and forest land use. Structural equation modelling suggested that despite a significant influence of forest management on resource abundance and quality, the biomass of most soil fauna functional groups was not directly affected by forest management or resource abundance/quality, potentially because microorganisms hamper the propagation of nutrients to higher trophic levels. Instead, detritivore biomass depended heavily on soil pH. Macrofauna decomposers thrived at high pH, whereas mesofauna decomposers benefitted from low soil pH, but also from low biomass of macrofauna decomposers, potentially due to habitat modification by macrofauna decomposers. The strong influence of soil pH shows that decomposer communities are structured predominantly by regional abiotic factors exceeding the role of local biotic factors such as forest type.</jats:p>