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

• Kardol, Paul

  • Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG15 Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
SDG13 Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts


UKÄ Subject classification

Environmental Sciences related to Agriculture and Land-use


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