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Abstract

Our data demonstrate how simultaneously acting climate change factors can affect the structure of soil microarthropod communities in old-field ecosystems. Overall, changes in soil moisture content, either as direct effect of changes in precipitation or as indirect effect of warming or elevated [CO2], had a larger impact on microarthropod communities than did the direct effects of the warming and elevated [CO2] treatments. Moisture-induced shifts in soil microarthropod abundance and community composition may have important impacts on ecosystem functions, such as decomposition, under future climatic change. (c) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Keywords

Collembola; Elevated atmospheric CO2; Mites; Old fields; Precipitation; Warming

Published in

Applied Soil Ecology
2011, volume: 47, number: 1, pages: 37-44
Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV

SLU Authors

Global goals (SDG)

SDG13 Climate action
SDG15 Life on land

UKÄ Subject classification

Environmental Sciences and Nature Conservation

Publication identifier

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2010.11.001

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/57812