Seasonal changes in the diversity and composition of the litter fauna in native forests and rubber plantations.

ABSTRACT: The litter layer of tropical forests supports a significant fraction of total arthropod diversity and decomposition of this layer is the main pathway by which nutrients are returned to the soil and CO₂ to the atmosphere. Conversion of tropical forests to agriculture is the main threat to biodiversity and ecosystem services, and understanding effects on the litter layer is important for understanding and mitigating these impacts. We used high through-put DNA sequencing of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) gene to assess seasonal changes in the diversity and composition of the litter fauna at five matched pairs of native forests and rubber plantations in tropical SW China every month for a year, and measured the environmental factors expected to drive intra-an

SUBMITTER: Beng KC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6035245 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature