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Fernández Fernández, María Mercedes Muñoz Adalia, Emigdio Jordan Rodríguez Pajares, Cristina Universidad de Valladolid. Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenierías Agrarias 2024-01-05T10:40:19Z 2024-01-05T10:40:19Z 2023 https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/64248 Conservation of increasingly degraded natural resources urges to develop fast and economic methodologies to evaluate the state of these resources in order to protect them. The aim of this study was to assess the soil quality of a Mediterranean forest located in Palencia (North Spain) using the QBS-ar index (Soil Biological Quality, adapted to arthropods). For this, three plots with different habitats in a managed ecosystem (secondary grassland, shrub community, and Mediterranean oak young forest) were selected and characterized in terms of stand composition and soil. Three soil samples were taken in each plot and the captured arthropods were identified. Moreover, six ecological indicators were calculated: QBS-ar, observed taxonomic richness (Sobs), diversity (Hsw), evenness (Ep), dominance, and specificity-fidelity. Variations of QBS-ar, observed taxonomic richness, diversity and evenness by by type of habitat and stand variables were evaluated computing generalized lineal models (GLMs). Analyses showed that QBS-ar, Sobs or Hsw did not vary between the different vegetation covers. Interestingly, taxonomic evenness showed significant variation either according to habitat -being higher in the shrubland- or by shrub height Departamento de Ciencias Agroforestales Máster en Gestión Forestal basada en Ciencia de Datos application/pdf eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Soil bioindicators Mediterranean shrub importance Arthropod mesofauna QBS-ar Soil conservation 2401.17 Invertebrados 2417.03 Botánica General Use of edaphic microinvertebrates to characterize soil quality in the forest Monte el Viejo, Palencia info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis