Journal article

Publication year: 2006

Pages: S358-S361

Journal: European Journal of Soil Biology

Volume number: 42

Issue number: 1

ISSN: 1164-5563

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejsobi.2006.09.006

Publisher: Elsevier

Abstract: 
The aim of the study reported here was to assess the impact of climate continentality across Europe on the structure and diversity of oribatid communities. Five sites were chosen along a West-East transect from The Netherlands to the Moscow region in Russia,in the zone of deciduous forest. Our results suggest that at the chosen scale climate has a moderate impact on abundance and biomass of oribatid communities. However there is a clear impact of continentality on the functional structure and diversity of oribatid populations expressed as the increase of soil-dwelling species abundance towards the East and the decrease of litterdwellers. There are also strong indications of a gradual faunistic shift along the transect. Soil type plays a modulating role in oribatid communities composition and species richness.

Harvard Citation style: Zaitsev, A. and Wolters, V. (2006) Geographic determinants of oribatid mite communities structure and diversity across Europe: a longitudinal perspective, European Journal of Soil Biology, 42(1), pp. S358-S361. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejsobi.2006.09.006

APA Citation style: Zaitsev, A., & Wolters, V. (2006). Geographic determinants of oribatid mite communities structure and diversity across Europe: a longitudinal perspective. European Journal of Soil Biology. 42(1), S358-S361. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejsobi.2006.09.006