Life-history traits predict recovery patterns in Collembola species after fire: A 10 year study

摘要: Fire is the most dominant natural large scale disturbance regime in many of world's ecosystems, including boreal forests. Fires usually destroy vegetation and litter and, if fires are severe enough, parts humus layer. Soil animals that using those resources therefore expected to be sensitive fire. Collembola a species rich group soil shows broad variability life-history traits. In this study I use fire experiment with burnt clear-cut, unburnt clear-cut forest examine recovery collembolan community at level during 10 years after moderate severity. also investigate there certain traits advantageous for Neither total abundances nor composition had recovered plots compared A few period recovering shared common traits, i.e. they were mainly surface living sexually reproducing fast active dispersal. Community weighted trait means showed whole varied between treatments only first