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T1 Use of edaphic microinvertebrates to characterize soil quality in the forest Monte el Viejo, Palencia
A1 Rodríguez Pajares, Cristina
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenierías Agrarias
K1 Soil bioindicators
K1 Mediterranean shrub importance
K1 Arthropod mesofauna
K1 QBS-ar
K1 Soil conservation
K1 2401.17 Invertebrados
K1 2417.03 Botánica General
AB Conservation of increasingly degraded natural resources urges to develop fast and economic methodologies to evaluate the state of these resources inorder 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-arindex (Soil Biological Quality, adapted to arthropods). For this, three plots with different habitats in a managed ecosystem (secondary grassland, shrubcommunity, and Mediterranean oak young forest) were selected and characterized in terms of stand composition and soil. Three soil samples were takenin 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 byby type of habitat and stand variables were evaluated computing generalized lineal models (GLMs). Analyses showed that QBS-ar, Sobs or Hsw did notvary between the different vegetation covers. Interestingly, taxonomic evenness showed significant variation either according to habitat -being higher in theshrubland- or by shrub height
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/64248
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/64248
LA eng
NO Departamento de Ciencias Agroforestales
DS UVaDOC
RD 17-jul-2024