Soil macroinvertebrate communities: A world‐wide assessment
2022
Lavelle, Patrick | Mathieu, Jérôme | Spain, Alister | Brown, George | Fragoso, Carlos | Lapied, Emmanuel | de Aquino, Adriana | Barois, Isabelle | Barrios, Edmundo | Barros, Maria Eleusa | Bedano, Jose Camilo | Blanchart, Eric | Caulfield, Mark | Chagueza, Yamileth | Dai, Jun | Decaëns, Thibaud | Dominguez, Anahi | Dominguez, Yamileth | Feijoo, Alexander | Folgarait, Patricia | Fonte, Steven, J. | Gorosito, Norma | Huerta, Esperanza | Jimenez, Juan Jose | Kelly, Courtland | Loranger, Gladys | Marchão, Robelio | Marichal, Raphaël | Praxedes, Catarina | Rodriguez, Leonardo | Rousseau, Guillaume | Rousseau, Laurent | Ruiz, Nuria | Sanabria, Catalina | Suarez, Juan Carlos | Tondoh, Jerôme Ebagnerin | de Valença, Anne | Vanek, Steven, J. | Vasquez, Joel | Velasquez, Elena | Webster, Emily | Zhang, Chi | Institut d'écologie et des sciences de l'environnement de Paris (iEES Paris) ; Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) | perso ; Adresse personnelle | Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa) ; Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento [Brasil] (MAPA) ; Governo do Brasil-Governo do Brasil | Instituto de Ecologia (INECOL) | Taxonomia International Foundation | FAO Plant Production and Protection Division (FAO) ; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations [Rome, Italie] (FAO) | National University of Río Cuarto = Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto (UNRC) | Geology Department, FCEFQyN, ICBIA-CONICET (National Scientific and Technical Research Council), National University of Río Cuarto | Ecologie fonctionnelle et biogéochimie des sols et des agro-écosystèmes (UMR Eco&Sols) ; Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Institut Agro Montpellier ; Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro) | Colorado State University [Fort Collins] (CSU) | Wageningen University and Research [Wageningen] (WUR) | Farming Systems Ecology ; Wageningen University and Research [Wageningen] (WUR) | Universidad Nacional de Colombia [Bogotà] (UNAL) | South China Agricultural University (SCAU) | College of Natural Resources and Environment ; South China Agricultural University (SCAU) | Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE) ; Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) ; Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [Occitanie])-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Institut Agro Montpellier ; Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Université de Montpellier (UM) | Universidad del Atlántico (UA) | Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira [Colombie] (UTP) | Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (UNQ) | EI Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR) ; Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología [Mexico] (CONACYT) | Soil Physics and Land Management Group ; Wageningen University and Research [Wageningen] (WUR) | Instituto Pirenaico de Ecologìa = Pyrenean Institute of Ecology [Zaragoza] (IPE - CSIC) ; Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas [España] = Spanish National Research Council [Spain] (CSIC) | Department of biodiversity conservation and ecosystem restoration ; Instituto Pirenaico de Ecologìa = Pyrenean Institute of Ecology [Zaragoza] (IPE - CSIC) ; Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas [España] = Spanish National Research Council [Spain] (CSIC)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas [España] = Spanish National Research Council [Spain] (CSIC) | Faculté des sciences exactes et naturelles (UFR SEN) ; Université des Antilles (Pôle Guadeloupe) ; Université des Antilles (UA)-Université des Antilles (UA) | Embrapa Cerrados ; Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation = Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa) | Agrosystèmes Biodiversifiés (UMR ABSys) ; Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier (CIHEAM-IAMM) ; Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes (CIHEAM)-Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes (CIHEAM)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Institut Agro Montpellier ; Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro) | Département Performances des systèmes de production et de transformation tropicaux (Cirad-PERSYST) ; Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad) | Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi [Belém, Brésil] (MPEG) | Coordenação de Zoologia ; Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi [Belém, Brésil] (MPEG) | Universidad de la Amazonia [Caquetá] | Universidade Estadual do Maranhão = State University of Maranhão (UEMA) | Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) | Universidad del Valle [Cali] (Univalle) | Université Nangui Abrogoua (UNA) | Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana (IIAP) | Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana [Loreto, Perou] (UNAP) | University of California [Davis] (UC Davis) ; University of California (UC) | We are grateful to Drs John Donaldson and Stella Zerbino for providing data from Australia and Uruguay, respectively, for the Macrofauna database.
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Show more [+] Less [-]English. Aim: Macroinvertebrates comprise a highly diverse set of taxa with great potential as indicators of soil quality. Communities were sampled at 3,694 sites distributed world-wide. We aimed to analyse the patterns of abundance, composition and network characteristics and their relationships to latitude, mean annual temperature and rainfall, land cover, soil texture and agricultural practices. Location: Sites are distributed in 41 countries, ranging from 55 degrees S to 57 degrees N latitude, from 0 to 4,000 m in elevation, with annual rainfall ranging from 500 to >3,000 mm and mean temperatures of 5-32 degrees C. Time period: 1980-2018. Major taxa studied: All soil macroinvertebrates: Haplotaxida; Coleoptera; Formicidae; Arachnida; Chilopoda; Diplopoda; Diptera; Isoptera; Isopoda; Homoptera; Hemiptera; Gastropoda; Blattaria; Orthoptera; Lepidoptera; Dermaptera; and "others". Methods: Standard ISO 23611-5 sampling protocol was applied at all sites. Data treatment used a set of multivariate analyses, principal components analysis (PCA) on macrofauna data transformed by Hellinger's method, multiple correspondence analysis for environmental data (latitude, elevation, temperature and average annual rainfall, type of vegetation cover) transformed into discrete classes, coinertia analysis to compare these two data sets, and bias-corrected and accelerated bootstrap tests to evaluate the part of the variance of the macrofauna data attributable to each of the environmental factors. Network analysis was performed. Each pairwise association of taxonomic units was tested against a null model considering local and regional scales, in order to avoid spurious correlations. Results: Communities were separated into five clusters reflecting their densities and taxonomic richness. They were significantly influenced by climatic conditions, soil texture and vegetation cover. Abundance and diversity, highest in tropical forests (1,895 +/- 234 individuals/m(2)) and savannahs (1,796 +/- 72 individuals/m(2)), progressively decreased in tropical cropping systems (tree-associated crops, 1,358 +/- 120 individuals/m(2); pastures, 1,178 +/- 154 individuals/m(2); and annual crops, 867 +/- 62 individuals/m(2)), temperate grasslands (529 +/- 60 individuals/m(2)), forests (232 +/- 20 individuals/m(2)) and annual crops (231 +/- 24 individuals/m(2)) and temperate dry forests and shrubs (195 +/- 11 individuals/m(2)). Agricultural management decreased overall abundance by <= 54% in tropical areas and 64% in temperate areas. Connectivity varied with taxa, with dominant positive connections in litter transformers and negative connections with ecosystem engineers and Arachnida. Connectivity and modularity were higher in communities with low abundance and taxonomic richness. Main conclusions: Soil macroinvertebrate communities respond to climatic, soil and land-cover conditions. All taxa, except termites, are found everywhere, and communities from the five clusters cover a wide range of geographical and environmental conditions. Agricultural practices significantly decrease abundance, although the presence of tree components alleviates this effect.
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