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Geographic determinants of oribatid mite communities structure and diversity across Europe: a longitudinal perspective |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Geosciences, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267, USA;2. Division of Biological Sciences, University of the Philippines in the Visayas, Miagao, Iloilo 5023, Philippines;3. Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra, Facultad de Ciencias Experimentales, Universidad de Huelva, Campus de El Carmen, Avda. 3 de Marzo, s/n, 21071 Huelva, Spain;4. Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Departamento de Geologia e Instituto Dom Luiz de geociências, Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal;5. Paleontología, Departamento de Biología, ULPGC, 35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain |
| Abstract: | The aim of the study reported here was to assess the impact of climate continentality across Europe on the structure and diversity of oribatid communities. Five sites were chosen along a West–East transect from The Netherlands to the Moscow region in Russia in the zone of deciduous forest. Our results suggest that at the chosen scale climate has a moderate impact on abundance and biomass of oribatid communities. However there is a clear impact of continentality on the functional structure and diversity of oribatid populations expressed as the increase of soil-dwelling species abundance towards the East and the decrease of litter-dwellers. There are also strong indications of a gradual faunistic shift along the transect. Soil type plays a modulating role in oribatid communities composition and species richness. |
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