Ground-dwelling arthropod community response to native grassland conversion in a temperate desert of northwestern China

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• 作者：Qi Feng (3)
  Feng-Rui Li (1) (2)
  Ji-Liang Liu (1) (3)
  Te-Sheng Sun (1) (2)
  Li-Juan Chen (3)
  
  3. Laboratory of Soil and Water Resources ; Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute ; Chinese Academy of Sciences ; Lanzhou ; 730000 ; China
  1. Linze Inland River Basin Research Station ; Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute ; Chinese Academy of Sciences ; Lanzhou ; 730000 ; China
  2. Laboratory of Ecology and Agriculture ; Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute ; Chinese Academy of Sciences ; Lanzhou ; 730000 ; China
  
• 关键词：Araneae ; Coleoptera ; Oasis conservation ; Shrub plantation ; Tree plantation ; Trophic group
• 刊名：Journal of Insect Conservation
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：February 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：19
• 期：1
• 页码：105-117
• 全文大小：369 KB
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• 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
• 刊物主题：Life Sciences
  Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/ Biogeography
  Evolutionary Biology
  Human Genetics
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1572-9753

文摘

Oases are common in desert regions of northwestern China and are major sites for human settlement. The implementation of oasis conservation planning has led to afforestation with appropriate shrubs and trees in the native grasslands surrounding inhabited oases. However, little is known about how this Land use change from native grassland to shrub and tree plantations influences the composition of ground-dwelling arthropod communities and the performance of their different trophic groups. To address this, we measured activity density, taxon richness, and relative abundance of four different ground arthropod trophic groups (spiders, beetle predators, beetle herbivores, and beetle detritivores) and several environmental variables affecting arthropod distributions (vegetation cover, ground temperature, soil moisture, soil properties, and leaf litter) along an experimentally established land use change gradient of a mature shrub (Haloxylon ammodendron) planation, a mature poplar (Populus gansuensis) plantation and a mature pine (Pinus sylvestris) plantation, as well as a native grassland from which all cultivated systems were converted. We found that converted shrub plantation had much lower activity density of predatory, herbivorous, and detritivorous beetles; similar activity density of spiders; and similar taxa richness of all four trophic groups relative to the native grassland. However, converted forest plantations regardless of tree species had much higher activity density of spiders, lower activity density of the three beetle groups, much higher richness of predatory beetles, and lower richness of herbivorous and detritivorous beetles. We also found a change in the composition of the ground arthropod community that was largely driven by changes in ground temperature and leaf litter mass. We conclude that conversion of native grassland to shrub and tree plantations can significantly affect ground-dwelling arthropod communities, reducing the activity of ground-dwelling beetle assemblages while increasing that of ground-dwelling spider assemblages. These findings are important for conserving native arthropod diversity in desert ecosystems.