Wehner, Katja ; Schuster, Romina ; Simons, Nadja K. ; Norton, Roy A. ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Heethoff, Michael (2024)
How land-use intensity affects sexual and parthenogenetic oribatid mites in temperate forests and grasslands in Germany.
In: Experimental and Applied Acarology, 2021, 83 (3)
doi: 10.26083/tuprints-00023490
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Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract)
Intensive land use has been shown to alter the composition and functioning of soil communities. Due to their low dispersal ability, oribatid mites are particularly vulnerable to land-use intensification and species which are not adjusted to management-related disturbances become less abundant. We investigated how different land-use parameters in forests and grasslands affect oribatid mite diversity and abundance, with a focus on: (1) species-level impacts, by classifying species as increasing (‘winners’) or decreasing (‘losers’) in abundance with higher land-use intensity, and (2) reproductive impact, by investigating whether sexual and parthenogenetic species react differently. We collected 32,542 adult oribatid mites in 60 forests and grasslands of known land-use intensity in two regions of Germany. Diversity and total abundance as well as the proportion of sexual species were higher in forests than in grasslands. Diversity declined with higher land-use intensity in forests, but increased with higher mowing and fertilization in grasslands. Depending on land-use parameter and region, abundance either declined or remained unaffected by increasing intensity. Gravidity was higher in sexual than in parthenogenetic species and sexuals had 1.6× more eggs per gravid female. Proportions of sexual species and gravid females decreased with land-use intensity in forests, but increased with mowing in grasslands. At the species level, 75% of sexuals and 87.5% of parthenogens were ‘losers’ of higher percentages of dead wood originating from management-related disturbances. Across land-use parameters and habitats, a similar proportion of sexual and parthenogenetic oribatid mite species were ‘losers’ of high land-use intensity. However, ‘winner’ species were more common among sexuals.
| Typ des Eintrags: | Artikel |
|---|---|
| Erschienen: | 2024 |
| Autor(en): | Wehner, Katja ; Schuster, Romina ; Simons, Nadja K. ; Norton, Roy A. ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Heethoff, Michael |
| Art des Eintrags: | Zweitveröffentlichung |
| Titel: | How land-use intensity affects sexual and parthenogenetic oribatid mites in temperate forests and grasslands in Germany |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Publikationsjahr: | 24 September 2024 |
| Ort: | Darmstadt |
| Publikationsdatum der Erstveröffentlichung: | 2021 |
| Ort der Erstveröffentlichung: | Dordrecht |
| Verlag: | Springer Science |
| Titel der Zeitschrift, Zeitung oder Schriftenreihe: | Experimental and Applied Acarology |
| Jahrgang/Volume einer Zeitschrift: | 83 |
| (Heft-)Nummer: | 3 |
| DOI: | 10.26083/tuprints-00023490 |
| URL / URN: | https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/23490 |
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| Herkunft: | Zweitveröffentlichung DeepGreen |
| Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract): | Intensive land use has been shown to alter the composition and functioning of soil communities. Due to their low dispersal ability, oribatid mites are particularly vulnerable to land-use intensification and species which are not adjusted to management-related disturbances become less abundant. We investigated how different land-use parameters in forests and grasslands affect oribatid mite diversity and abundance, with a focus on: (1) species-level impacts, by classifying species as increasing (‘winners’) or decreasing (‘losers’) in abundance with higher land-use intensity, and (2) reproductive impact, by investigating whether sexual and parthenogenetic species react differently. We collected 32,542 adult oribatid mites in 60 forests and grasslands of known land-use intensity in two regions of Germany. Diversity and total abundance as well as the proportion of sexual species were higher in forests than in grasslands. Diversity declined with higher land-use intensity in forests, but increased with higher mowing and fertilization in grasslands. Depending on land-use parameter and region, abundance either declined or remained unaffected by increasing intensity. Gravidity was higher in sexual than in parthenogenetic species and sexuals had 1.6× more eggs per gravid female. Proportions of sexual species and gravid females decreased with land-use intensity in forests, but increased with mowing in grasslands. At the species level, 75% of sexuals and 87.5% of parthenogens were ‘losers’ of higher percentages of dead wood originating from management-related disturbances. Across land-use parameters and habitats, a similar proportion of sexual and parthenogenetic oribatid mite species were ‘losers’ of high land-use intensity. However, ‘winner’ species were more common among sexuals. |
| Freie Schlagworte: | Biodiversity Exploratories, Land-use factors, Oribatid mites, Microarthropods, Sexuality, Parthenogenesis |
| Status: | Verlagsversion |
| URN: | urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-234902 |
| Sachgruppe der Dewey Dezimalklassifikatin (DDC): | 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 570 Biowissenschaften, Biologie 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 580 Pflanzen (Botanik) |
| Fachbereich(e)/-gebiet(e): | 10 Fachbereich Biologie 10 Fachbereich Biologie > Ecological Networks |
| Hinterlegungsdatum: | 24 Sep 2024 09:05 |
| Letzte Änderung: | 25 Sep 2024 08:58 |
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