Diversity and Function of Collembola
A special issue of Insects (ISSN 2075-4450). This special issue belongs to the section "Insect Ecology, Diversity and Conservation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2024) | Viewed by 1941
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Collembola; soil fauna; greenhouse gas; food web; stable isotope
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Collembola are widely distributed in forests, grasslands, wetlands, and farmland ecosystems. As one of the most ubiquitous soil arthropods in the terrestrial ecosystem, Collembola can affect carbon and nitrogen cycling through litter decomposition, microbe transmission, and microbes and microfauna. Moreover, Collembola can inhabit different soil layers and are sensitive to climate change. Therefore, springtails are good indicators of soil biodiversity. There are some studies on the responses of Collembola to climate change in the form of temperature increases, precipitation, and carbon dioxide increases. There are also many studies on land-use methods (such as farming methods, wetland reclamation, forest land reclamation, etc.). However, compared with the research on above-ground ecosystems, the research on the biodiversity and ecological functions of soil springtails is still relatively scarce, which greatly hinders the progress of the overall research on soil ecosystems. Therefore, we have decided to launch a Special Issue named “Diversity and Function of Collembola”.
The Special Issue welcomes papers on various aspects of the diversity and function of Collembola.
Prof. Dr. Liang Chang
Prof. Dr. Meixiang Gao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Collembola
- global change
- diversity
- function
- land-use type
- pattern
- dynamics
- maintenance
- conservation
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