Viketoft, Maria
- Department of Entomology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Abstract
This study describes the nematode community in a semi-natural grassland and investigates if certain individual plant species can cause a spatial structure in the nematode fauna. Nematode communities were analysed in soil under Trifolium repens, Festuca ovina and from randomly taken samples. Seventy-nine nematode genera were identified. Some of the species found have not previously been reported from Sweden. Multivariate analysis separated the nematode communities associated with the two selected plant species from each other, and several individual nematode genera differed in abundance between the plant species. Trifolium repens supported greater populations of the plant feeder Tylenchorhynchus and the bacterial feeders Eucephalobus, Chiloplacus, Eumonhystera and Panagrolaimus, but fewer numbers of the bacterial feeder Achromadora. Soil under F. ovina contained more nematodes from the family Alaimidae. A comparison is given with other studies from grassland systems in Sweden.
Keywords
Festuca ovina; nematode community structure; rotifers; Sweden; tardigrades; Trifolium repens
Published in
Nematology
2007, volume: 9, pages: 131-142
Publisher: BRILL ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
SLU Authors
UKÄ Subject classification
Environmental Sciences and Nature Conservation
Agricultural Science
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/156854107779969727
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/15418