Status of soil nematode communities during natural regeneration of a subtropical forest in southwestern China

Yujuan Li; Guoping Yang; Deborah A Heher; Cheng Yuan Xu; Jihua Wu

doi:10.1163/15685411-00002853

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Status of soil nematode communities during natural regeneration of a subtropical forest in southwestern China

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Status of soil nematode communities during natural regeneration of a subtropical forest in southwestern China

Yujuan Li, Guoping Yang, Deborah A Heher, Cheng Yuan Xu and Jihua Wu

Nematology, Vol.17(1), pp.79-90

2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/15685411-00002853

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Abstract

soil nematodes

ecosystem

subtropical forest

restoration

trophic group

secondary succession

Forest recovery has been extensively evaluated using plant communities but fewer studies have been conducted on soil fauna. This study reports the status of soil nematode communities during natural re-establishment after deforestation in a subtropical forest in southwestern China. Soil nematode communities of two secondary succession stages, shrub-grassland and secondary forest, were compared with those of virgin forest. Shrub-grassland had higher herbivore relative abundance but lower fungivore and bacterivore relative abundance than forests. Between secondary and virgin forest, the latter had higher abundance of bacterivores. Shrub-grassland had lower nematode diversity, generic richness, maturity index and trophic diversity index than virgin forest, whereas there were no differences in these indices between secondary forest and virgin forest. The small differences in nematode community structures between secondary forest and virgin forest suggest that soil nematode communities recovered to a level close to that of the undisturbed forest after up to 50 years of natural succession.

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Title: Status of soil nematode communities during natural regeneration of a subtropical forest in southwestern China
Authors: Yujuan Li (Author) - Fudan University, China
Guoping Yang (Author) - Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Deborah A Heher (Author) - University of Vermont, United States
Cheng Yuan Xu (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering
Jihua Wu (Author) - Fudan University, China
Publication details: Nematology, Vol.17(1), pp.79-90
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Date published: 2015
DOI: 10.1163/15685411-00002853
ISSN: 1388-5545
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99449485602621
Output Type: Journal article

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