Status of soil nematode communities during natural regeneration of a subtropical forest in southwestern China


Autoria(s): Li, Yujuan; Yang, Guoping; Neher, Deborah A.; Xu, Cheng-Yuan; Wu, Jihua
Data(s)

2015

Resumo

Forest recovery has been extensively evaluated using plant communities but fewer studies have been conducted on soil fauna. This study reports the status of soil nematode communities during natural re-establishment after deforestation in a subtropical forest in southwestern China. Soil nematode communities of two secondary succession stages, shrub-grassland and secondary forest, were compared with those of virgin forest. Shrub-grassland had higher herbivore relative abundance but lower fungivore and bacterivore relative abundance than forests. Between secondary and virgin forest, the latter had higher abundance of bacterivores. Shrub-grassland had lower nematode diversity, generic richness, maturity index and trophic diversity index than virgin forest, whereas there were no differences in these indices between secondary forest and virgin forest. The small differences in nematode community structures between secondary forest and virgin forest suggest that soil nematode communities recovered to a level close to that of the undisturbed forest after up to 50 years of natural succession.

Identificador

Li, Yujuan and Yang, Guoping and Neher, Deborah A. and Xu, Cheng-Yuan and Wu, Jihua (2015) Status of soil nematode communities during natural regeneration of a subtropical forest in southwestern China. Nematology, 17 (1). p. 79. ISSN 1388-5545

http://era.daf.qld.gov.au/4662/

Relação

http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685411-00002853

http://era.daf.qld.gov.au/4662/

Palavras-Chave #Research. Experimentation
Tipo

Article

PeerReviewed