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- Title
EFFECT OF TREE IDENTITY, TEMPORAL VARIATION AND EDAPHIC PARAMETERS ON THE STRUCTURE OF THE EDAPHIC COMMUNITY OF ORIBATID MITES IN AN EVERGREEN TROPICAL FOREST OF MEXICO.
- Authors
VILLAGOMEZ, F.; PALACIOS-VARGAS, J. G.; CASTAÑO-MENESES, G.; CASTELLANOSVARGAS, I.
- Abstract
This paper analyzes the community structure of edaphic oribatid mites from the tropical forest at Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, showing its monthly variation during only one year, considering two contrasting tree species and their relation with abiotic edaphic parameters. Randomly, five Astrocaryum mexicanum and Guarea glabra plants were chosen and near the stem of each one, a sample of soil was taken and processed in the same biological station with Berlese-Tullgren funnels. The most abundant families were Scheloribatidae, Oppiidae, Xylobatidae, Arceremaeidae, and Galumnidae. The Kruskall- Wallis test showed that structure of oribatid mite community is not significative related to tree identity, which they are associated. Pearson's multiple correlation showed that the edaphic temperature is one of the most important abiotic factors in the structuring of oribatid mites communities. The abiotic variables explained 58% of oribatid community variance in its first two axes, with temporality and CO2 being the factors with most influence over the community. It is concluded that tree identity is not a factor that affects the structuring of oribatid mite communities in this tropical forest, while temporality, soil temperature and CO2 are the factors that most influence its establishment, this last factor as an indirect indicator of system productivity.
- Subjects
MEXICO; TROPICAL forests; COMMUNITY organization; MITES; SOIL temperature; SOIL sampling
- Publication
Applied Ecology & Environmental Research, 2019, Vol 17, Issue 6, p14621
- ISSN
1589-1623
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15666/aeer/1706_1462114639