Abundance and diversity of soil arthropods and fungi in shelterbelts integrated with pastures in the central tablelands of New South Wales, Australia.

摘要: Shelterbelts are important for the sustainability of agriculture because they provide a variety benefits to farmers and society. Several published papers demonstrate that integration shelterbelts with agroecosystems offers positive outcomes, such as better yield, more congenial microclimate, greater organic matter levels. None- theless, soil biological diversity, driver levels, has not been convincingly tested veri- fied yet. In addressing this gap, we measured abundance diversity populations arthropods fungi in three 11-year old integrated pasture determine whether correlation exists between two seasons: late autumn-early winter (May-June 2011) winter-early spring (August-September 2011). Litter from surface depths were sam- pled at increasing distance midpoint extraction isolation culturing fungi. The relationship among distance, depth biodiversity different groups was analysed using linear regression. We found over both seasons arthropod litter declined shelterbelts, depth. However, ei- ther season affected by proximity shelterbelt but increased Distance midpoints did bear an impact on richness