Comparative study of Collembolan communities in different forest types of Finland

Winkler Dániel András; Németh Tamás Márton; Traser György Nándor

Bulletin of Forestry Science / Volume 3 / Issue 1 / Pages 205-214
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András Dániel Winkler, Márton Tamás Németh & Nándor György Traser

Correspondence

Correspondence: Winkler Dániel András

Postal address: H-9400 Sopron, Bajcsy-Zsilinszky u. 4.

e-mail: dwinkler[at]emk.nyme.hu

Abstract

The Collembola fauna was studied in the region of Ähtäri (Western Finland) in five different habitats (coniferous, deciduous and mixed forests). During the survey a total of 2007 specimens belonging to 32 species were collected. The most abundant species was Folsomia fimetarioides occurring in high numbers in all sampled habitats. Species richness and diversity were the highest in the pine forest, while total abundance peaked in the soil samples of the birch forest. Despite of the different plant composition of the sampled forests, community similarity (Bray-Curtis) was relatively high (41%<).

Keywords: soil fauna, Collembola, diversity, coniferous forest, deciduous forest

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Arbea, J.I. and Jordana, R. 1985: Efecto de una repoblación con coníferas en un robledal de Navarra sobre los colémbolos edáficos. Boletim de Sociedade Portuguesa de Entomologia, Supl. 1(2): 277-286.

Balogh J. 1958: A talajzoológiai kutatások eredményei és feladatai hazánkban. A Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Biológiai Csoportjának Közleményei, 2(1): 79-93.

Bray, J.R. and Curtis, J.T. 1957: An ordination of the upland forest communities of southern Southern Wisconsin. Ecological Monographs, 27: 325-349. DOI: 10.2307/1942268

Cajander, A.K. 1913: Ueber Waldtypen. Acta Forestalia Fennica, 1: 1-175. DOI: 10.14214/aff.7526

Cajander, A.K. 1925: Metsätyyppiteoria. Acta Forestalia Fennica, 4: 1-84. DOI: 10.14214/aff.7192

Cajander, A.K. 1949: Forest types and their significance. Acta Forestalia Fennica, 56: 1-71. DOI: 10.14214/aff.7396

Deharveng, L. 1982: Cle de determination des genres de Neanurinae (Collembola) d’Europe et la region Mediterraneenne, avec description de deux nouveaux genres. Travaux du Laboratoire d’Ecologie des Arthropodes Edaphiques, 3: 7-13.

Dunger, W. and Voigtländer, K. 2009: Soil fauna (Lumbricidae, Collembola, Diplopoda and Chilopoda) as indicators of soil eco-subsystem development in post-mining sites of eastern Germany – a review. Soil Organisms,, 81(1): 1–51.

Elmarsdottir, A.; Fjellberg, A.; Halldorson, G.; Ingimarsdottir, M.; Nielsen, O.K.; Nygaard, P.; Oddsdottir, E.S. and Sigurdsson, B.D. 2008: Effects of afforestation on biodiversity. In: Halldorsson, G.; Oddsdottir, E.S. and Sigurdsson, B.D. (eds.): AFFORNORD. Effects of afforestation on ecosystems, landscape and rural development. TemaNord 2008/562: 37–47. DOI: 10.6027/9789289333351-5-en

Esseen, P-A.; Ehnström, B.; Ericson, L. and Sjöberg, K. 1997: Boreal forests. Ecological Bulletins, 46: 16–47.

Fjellberg, A. 1980: Identification keys to Norwegian Collembola. Norsk Entomologisk Forening, 1–152.

Fjellberg, A. 1998: The Collembola of Fennoscandia and Denmark. Part I.: Poduromorpha. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica, 35: 1–184.

Fjellberg, A. 2007: Checklist of Nordic Collembola. With notes on habitat preferences and presence/absence in individual countries. (web)

Fjellberg, A.; Nygaard, P.H. and Stabbetorp, O.E. 2007: Structural changes in Collembola populations following replanting of birch forest with spruce in North Norway. In Halldorsson, G., Oddsdottir, E.S. & Eggertsson, O. (eds.): Proceedings from the AFFORNORD conference, Reykholt, Iceland, June 18-22, 2005, Tema Nord 2007, 119–125.

Frank, J. 1994: Use of broadleaved trees in conifers as a countermeasure to acidification: Effects on soil properties. Aktuelt fra Skogforsk, 14: 42–47.

Gillet, S. and Ponge, J.F. 2004: Are acid-tolerant Collembola able to colonise metal-polluted soil? Applied Soil Ecology, 26: 219–231. DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2004.01.001

Hågvar, S. 1982: Collembola in Norwegian coniferous forest soils I. Relations to plant communities and soil fertility. Pedobiologia, 24: 255–296.

Hågvar, S. 1983: Collembola in Norwegian coniferous forest soils II. Vertical distribution. Pedobiologia, 25: 383–401.

Hågvar, S. and Abrahamsen, G. 1980: Colonisation by Enchytraeidae, Collembola and Acari in sterile soil samples with adjusted pH levels. Oikos, 34: 245–258. DOI: 10.2307/3544284

Hågvar, S. and Abrahamsen, G. 1984: Collembola in Norwegian coniferous forest soils. III. Relations to soil chemistry. Pedobiologia, 27: 331–339.

Hopkin, S.P. 1997: Biology of the Springtails (Insecta: Collembola). University Press, Oxford.

Huhta, V. and Ojala, R. 2006: Collembolan communities in deciduous forests of different origin in Finland. Applied Soil Ecology, 31: 83–90. DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2005.04.001

Huhta, V.; Hyvönen, R.; Kaasalainen, P.; Koskenniemi, A.; Muona, J.; Mäkelä, I.; Sulander, M. and Vilkamaa, P. 1986: Soil fauna of Finnish coniferous forests. Annales Zoologici Fennici, 23: 345–360.

Huhta, V.; Räty, M.; Ahlroth, P.; Hänninen, S.-M.; Mattila, J.; Penttinen, R. and Rintala, T. 2005: Soil fauna of deciduous forests as compared with spruce forests in central Finland. Memoranda Societatis pro Fauna et Flora Fennica, 81: 52–70.

Huhta, V.; Siira-Pietikäinen, A.; Penttinen, R. and Räty, M. 2010: Soil Fauna of Finland: Acarina, Collembola and Enchytraeidae. Memoranda Societatis pro Fauna et Flora Fennica, 86: 59–82.

Janssens, F. and Christiansen, K.A. 2011: Class Collembola Lubbock, 1870. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.), Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa, 3148: 192–194.

Jordana, R.; Arbea, J.I. and Carlos Simón, M.J.L. 1997: Collembola, Poduromorpha. Fauna Iberica, Vol. 8. Museo National de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid.

Krebs, C.J. 1978: Ecology: The Experimental Analysis of Distribution and Abundance. 6th ed. Benjamin Cummings, San Francisco, USA

Loksa, I. 1978: Mikrohabitate und ihre Bedeutung für die Verteilung der Collembolen-gemeinschaften in einem Hainbuchen-Eichenbestand. Opuscula Zoologica, 16: 93-117. full text

Patil, G.P. and Taillie, C. 1979: An overwiev of diversity. 3–27. In: Grassle, J.F.; Patil, G.P.; Smith, W. and Taillie, C. (eds.): Ecological diversity in Theory and Practice. International Cooperative Publishing House, Fairland, Maryland, USA

Persson, T.; Bååth, E.; Clarholm, M.; Lundkvist, H.; Söderström, B. and Sohlenius, B. 1980: Trophic structure, biomass dynamics and carbon metabolism in a Scots pine forest. Ecological Bulletins, 3: 419–459.

Petersen, H. 1980: Population dynamic and metabolic characterization of Collembola species in a beech forest ecosystem. 806–833. In: Dindal, D.L. (ed.): Proceedings of the VIIth International Colloquium of Soil Zoology, Syracuse, USA, 1979. EPA.

Ponge, J.F. 1993: Biocenoses of Collembola in atlantic temperate grass-woodland ecosystems. Pedobiologia, 37: 223–244.

Potapov, M. 2001: Synopses on Palaearctic Collembola: Isotomidae. Abhandlungen und Berichte des Naturkundemuseums Görlitz, 73(2): 1–603.

Räty, M. and Huhta, V. 2004: Earthworm communities in birch stands with different origin in central Finland. Pedobiologia, 48: 283–291.

Rényi, A. 1961: On mesaure of entropy and information. 547–561. In Neyman, J. (ed.): Proceedings of the 4th Berkley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probablity. University of California Press, Berkley, USA

Shannon, C.E. and Weaver, W. 1949: The Mathematical Theory of Communication. University of Illionis Press, Urbana, pp. 1–117.

Simpson, E.H. 1949: Measurement of diversity. Nature, 163: 688. DOI: 10.1038/163688a0

Tóthmérész B. 1997: Diverzitási rendezések. Scientia Kiadó. Budapest.

Tóthmérész B. 1998: Kvantitatív ökológiai módszerek a skálafüggés vizsgálatára. 145–160. In: Fekete G. (szerk.): A közösségi ökológia frontvonalai. Scientia Kiadó. Budapest.

Tóthmérész, B. 1995: Comparison of different methods for diversity ordering. Journal of Vegetation Science, 6(2): 283–290. DOI: 10.2307/3236223

Traser Gy. és Csóka Gy. 2001: A mezofauna – Insecta: Collembola – ásotthalmi fenyő- és tölgyerdők talajában. Erdészeti Kutatások, 90: 231–240.

Uotila, A. and Kouki, J. 2005: Understorey vegetation in spruce-dominated forests in eastern Finland and Russian Karelia: Successional patterns after anthropogenic and natural disturbances. Forest Ecology and Management, 215: 113–137. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2005.05.008

Uotila, A.; Maltamo, M.; Uuttera, J. and Isomäki, A. 2001: Stand structure in semi-natural and managed forests in eastern Finland and Russian Karelia. Ecological Bulletins, 49: 149–158.

Weiner, W.M. 1996: Generic revision of Onychiurinae (Collembola: Onychiuridae) with a cladistic analysis. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 32: 163–200.

Winkler D. és Erdő Á. 2012: Talajélet a vörösiszap-szennyezés után. Erdészeti Lapok, 147(6): 171–173. full text

Winkler D. és Tóth V. 2012: Effects of afforestation with pines on Collembola diversity in the limestone hills of Szárhalom (West Hungary). Acta Silvatica et Lignaria Hungarica, 8: 9–20. DOI: 10.2478/v10303-012-0001-8

Zimdars, B. and Dunger, W. 1994: Tullbergiinae. In: Dunger, W. (ed.): Synopses on Palaearctic Collembola. Vol. 1. Abhandlungen und Berichte des Naturkundemuseums Görlitz, 68(3–4): 1–71.

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