Succession in harvestman (Opiliones) communities within an abandoned sand quarry in Belgium
Sand mining strongly alters the existing landscape, transforming an area into a mosaic of native (sand deposits) and foreign soils, strongly influencing biotic development. The method of restoration of such excavated areas is often debated: natural succession or active restoration. We investigated how natural succession shapes harvestman communities, as part of the soil-dwelling community. We sampled harvestmen over a continuous period of 14 months in 25 plots in an abandoned sand quarry in Belgium using pitfall traps. We found significant increases in harvestman activity-density, species rich... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | journalarticle |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2017 |
Schlagwörter: | Biology and Life Sciences / Earth and Environmental Sciences / Harvestmen / Restoration / Soil-dwelling fauna / Natural succession / Human-disturbed landscape / SPONTANEOUS VEGETATION SUCCESSION / EUROPEAN MINING SITES / FIELD MARGINS / HABITATS / PROVINCE / FORESTS |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27380294 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8542324 |