Tardigrade communities in pristine, drained and restored pine mire forests.

ABSTRACT: Restoration has become one of the key measures in improving the state of biodiversity. However, restoration outcomes are in many cases not well understood, and species communities have not been monitored long enough to determine whether they can or cannot recover completely to the pristine reference state. So far, it is particularly poorly known how the communities of microscopic fauna vary within and between pristine, drained and restored peatland habitats. We collected 270 moss samples from a replicated restoration experimental set up to study whether tardigrade communities differ between pristine, drained and restored pine mire forests. In addition, we estimated the associations between tardigrade genera and the moss type they live in. We found a weak pattern of tardigrade occupancy pro

SUBMITTER: Maenpaa H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12639931 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature