Seasonal distribution and diversity of ground-active arthropods between shrub microhabitats in the Negev Desert, Israel

References

• Allington, G. R. H., and T. J. Valone. 2014. Islands of fertility: a byproduct of grazing? Ecosystems 17:127–41.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Antunes, S. C., R. Pereira, J. P. Sousa, M. C. Santos, and F. Gongalves. 2008. Spatial and temporal distribution of litter arthropods in different vegetation covers of Porto Santo Island (Madeira Archipelago, Portugal). European Journal of Soil Biology 44:45–56.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Apigian, K. O., D. L. Dahlsten, and S. L. Stephens. 2006. Biodiversity of Coleoptera and the importance of habitat structural features in a Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest. Environmental Entomology 35:964–75.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Begum, F., R. M. Bajracharya, B. K. Sitaula, and S. Sharma. 2013. Seasonal dynamics, slope aspect and land use effects on soil mesofauna density in the mid-hills of Nepal. Int. J. Biodiv. Sci. Ecosyst. Serv. Manag. (International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & Management) 9:290–97.
   Google Scholar
• Bengtsson, J., and M. P. Berg. 2005. Variability in food web structure across time and space. In Dynamic food webs. Multispecies assemblages, ecosystem development and environmental change, ed. P. C. de Ruiter, V. Wolters, and J. C. Moore, 201–210. Oxford: Elsevier Academic Press.
   Google Scholar
• Berg, N., and Y. Steinberger. 2008. Role of perennial plants in determining the activity of the microbial community in the Negev Desert ecosystem. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 40:2686–95.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Breckle, S.-W., A. Yair, and M. Veste. 2008. Arid Dune Ecosystem: The Nizzana Sands in the Negev Desert. Ecological Studies, Vol. 200. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany.
   Google Scholar
• Crawford, C. S. 1991. The community ecology of macroarthropod detritivores. In The ecology of desert communities, ed. G. A. Polis, 89–112. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
   Google Scholar
• Decaens, T., T. Dutoit, D. Alard, and P. Lavelle. 1998. Factors influencing soil macrofaunal communities in post-pastoral successions of western France. Applied Soil Ecology 9:361–67.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Doblas-Miranda, E., F. Sanchez-Pinero, and A. Gonzalez-Megias. 2007. Soil macroinvertebrate fauna of a Mediterranean arid system: Composition and temporal changes in the assemblage. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 39:1916–25.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Doblas-Miranda, E., F. Sanchez-Pinero, and A. Gonzalez-Megias. 2009. Different microhabitats affect soil macroinvertebrate assemblages in a Mediterranean arid ecosystem. Applied Soil Ecology 41:329–35.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Evenari, M. E., L. Shanan, and W. Tadmor. 1982. The Negev: The challenge of a desert. 2nd ed., 345. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Fitoussi, N., S. Pen-Mouratov, and Y. Steinberger. 2016. Soil free-living nematodes as bio-indicators for assaying the invasive effect of the alien plant Heterotheca subaxillaris in a coastal dune ecosystem. Applied Soil Ecology 102:1–9.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Frampton, G. K., P. J. Van den Brink, and P. J. L. Gould. 2000. Effects of spring precipitation on a temperate arable collembolan community analysed using Principal Response Curves. Applied Soil Ecology 14:231–48.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Frouz, J., A. Ali, J. Frouzova, and R. J. Lobinske. 2004. Horizontal and vertical distribution of soil macroarthropods along a spatio-temporal moisture gradient in subtropical Central Florida. Environmental Entomology 33:1282–95.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Garner, W., and Y. Steinberger. 1989. A proposed mechanism for the formation of ‘Fertile Island’ in the desert ecosystem. Journal of Arid Environments 16:257–62.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ghabbour, S. I. and S. H. Shakir. 1980. Ecology of soil fauna of Mediterranean Desert ecosystems in Egypt. 3. Analysis of Thymelaea mesofauna populations at the Mariut frontal plain. Revue D Ecologie Et De Biologie Du Sol 17:327–52.
   Google Scholar
• Kardol, P., M. A. Cregger, C. E. Campany, and A. T. Classen. 2010. Soil ecosystem functioning under climate change: plant species and community effects. Ecology 91:767–81.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kardol, P., W. N. Reynolds, R. J. Norby, and A. T. Classen. 2011. Climate change effects on soil microarthropod abundance and community structure. Applied Soil Ecology 47:37–44.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Legakis, A. 1994. Community structure and species richness in the Mediterranean-type soil fauna. In Plant-animal interactions in mediterranean-type ecosystems, ed. M. Arianoursou and R. H. Groves, 37–45. The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
   Google Scholar
• Leps, J., and P. Smilauer. 2003. Multivariate analysis of ecological data using CANOCO. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Li, F. R., J. L. Liu, C. A. Liu, Q. J. Liu, and R. X. Niu. 2013. Shrubs and species identity effects on the distribution and diversity of ground-dwelling arthropods in a Gobi desert. Journal of Insect Conservation 17:319–31.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Li, X. H., D. M. Jiang, and Y. M. Luo. 2010. Soil fertile islands of shrub canopy and impacts on vegetation in chronosequence of Caragana microphylla. J. Liaoning Tech. Univ. 29:336–39.
   Google Scholar
• Liang, W., and Y. Steinberger. 2001. Temporal changes in nematode community structure in a desert ecosystem. Journal of Arid Environments 48:267–80.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Liu, J. L., F. R. Li, C. A. Liu, and Q. J. Liu. 2012. Influences of shrub vegetation on distribution and diversity of a ground beetle community in a Gobi desert ecosystem. Biodiversity and Conservation 21:2601–19.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Liu, R. T. 2015. Ecology of soil fauna in a desertified system. Beijing: Science Press.
   Google Scholar
• Liu, R. T., S. Pen-Mouratov, and Y. Steinberger. 2016. Shrub cover expressed as an ‘arthropod island’ in xeric environments. Arthropod-Plant Interactions 10:393–402.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Liu, R. T., H. L. Zhao, X. Y. Zhao, and S. Drake. 2011. Facilitative effects of shrubs in shifting sand on soil macro-faunal community in Horgin Sand Land of Inner Mongolia, Northern China. European Journal of Soil Biology 47:316–21.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Liu, R. T., H. L. Zhao, X. Y. Zhao, and X. M. Liu. 2015. Distribution of soil faunal community in horqin sand land. Beijing: Science Press.
   Google Scholar
• Liu, R. T., F. Zhu, N. P. Song, X. G. Yang, and Y. Q. Chai. 2013. Seasonal distribution and diversity of ground arthropods in microhabitats following a shrub plantation age sequence in desertified steppe. PLoS ONE 8(10): e77962.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Magurran, A. E. 2004. Measuring biological diversity. Malden: Blackwell Publishing.
   Google Scholar
• McCann, K., J. Rasmussen, J. Umbanhowar, and M. Humphries. 2005. The role of space, time and variability in food webs dynamics. In Dynamic food webs. Multispecies assemblages, ecosystem development and environmental change, ed. P. C. de Ruiter, V. Wolters, and J. C. Moore, 56–70. Oxford: Elsevier Academic Press.
   Google Scholar
• Munoz, M. A., and A. Faz. 2014. Soil and vegetation seasonal changes in the grazing Andean Mountain grasslands. Journal of Mountain Science 11:1123–37.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Nagendra, H. 2002. Opposite trends in response for the Shannon and Simpson indices of landscape diversity. App. Geog. 22:175–86.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Noemi-Mazia, C., E. J. Chaneton, and T. Kitzberger. 2006. Small-scale habitat use and assemblage structure of ground-dwelling beetles in a Patagonian shrub steppe. Journal of Arid Environments 67:177–94.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pan, K. W., L. Zhang, Y. H. Shao, and S. L. Fu. 2016. Thematic monitoring network of soil fauna diversity in China: exploring the mystery of soils. Biodiversity Science 24:1234–39.
   Google Scholar
• Pen-Mouratov, S., M. Rakhimbaev, G. Barness, and Y. Steinberger. 2004. Spatial and temporal dynamics of the nematode populations under Zygophyllum dumosum in an arid environment. European Journal of Soil Biology 40:31–46.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pen-Mouratov, S., S. Rodriguez-Zaragoza, and Y. Steinberger. 2008. The effect of Cercidium praecox and Prosopis laevigata on vertical distribution of soil free-living nematode communities in the Tehuacan Desert, Mexico. Ecological Research 23:973–82.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Polis, G. A. 1991. The ecology of desert communities. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
   Google Scholar
• Sackmann, P., and G. E. Flores. 2009. Temporal and spatial patterns of tenebrionid beetle diversity in NW Patagonia, Argentina. Journal of Arid Environments 73:1095–102.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Santorufo, L., C. A. M. Van Gestel, and G. Maisto. 2014. Sampling season affects conclusions on soil arthropod community structure responses to metal pollution in Mediterranean urban soils. Geoderma 226:47–53.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Saul-Tcherkas, V., and Y. Steinberger. 2011. Soil microbial diversity in the vicinity of a Negev Desert shrub - Reaumuria negevensis. Microbial Ecology 61:64–81.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Seely, M. K., and G. N. Louw. 1980. First approximation of the effects of rainfall on the ecology and energetics of a Namib Desert dune ecosystem. Journal of Arid Environments 3:25–54.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Shumway, S. W. 2000. Facilitative effects of a sand dune shrub on species growing beneath the shrub canopy. Oecologia 124:138–48.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stamou, G. P., G. V. Stamou, E. M. Papatheodorou, M. D. Argyropoulou, and S. G. Tzafestas. 2004. Population dynamics and life history tactics of arthropods from Mediterranean-type ecosystems. Oikos 104:98–108.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stapp, P. 1997. Microhabitat use and community structure of darkling beetles (Coleoptera:Tenebrionidae) in shortgrass prairie: Effects of season, shrub cover and soil type. American Midland Naturalist 137:298–311.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Steinberger, Y., and I. Loboda. 1991. Nematode population dynamics and trophic structure in a soil profile under the canopy of the desert shrub Zygophyllum dumosum. Pedobiologia 35:191–97.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stewart, A. J. A., E. A. John, and M. J. Hutchings. 2000. The world is heterogeneous: Ecological consequences of living in a patchy environment. In The ecological consequences of environmental heterogeneity, ed. M. J. Hutchings, E. A. John, and A. J. A. Stewart, 1–8. Blackwell Science, Oxford.
   Google Scholar
• Su, Y. Z., H. L. Zhao, Y. L. Li, and J. Y. Cui. 2004. Influencing mechanisms of several shrubs on soil chemical properties in semiarid Horqin Sandy Land, China. Arid Land Research and Management 18:251–63.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Touloumis, K., and G. P. Stamou. 2009. A metapopulation approach of the dynamics of arthropods from Mediterranean-type ecosystems. Ecological Modelling 220:1105–12.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wezel, A., J. L. Rajot, and C. Herbrig. 2000. Influence of shrubs on soil characteristics and their function in Sahelian agro-ecosystems in semi-arid Niger. Journal of Arid Environments 44:383–98.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Whitford, W. G. 2000. Keystone arthropods as webmasters in desert ecosystems. In Invertebrates as webmasters in ecosystems, ed. D. C. Coleman and P. F. Hendrix, 25–41. New York: CABI Publishing.
   Google Scholar
• Whitford, W. G. 2002. Ecology of desert systems, 343. New York, London: Academic Press.
   Google Scholar
• Working Group, R. B. 1988. World Reference Base for Soil Resources. (ISSS/ISRIC/FAO). World Soil Resources Reports #84, FAO, Rome.
   Google Scholar
• Yin, W. Y. 2000. Pictorial keys to soil faunas of China. Beijing: Science Press.
   Google Scholar
• Yu, J., and Y. Steinberger. 2011. Vertical distribution of microbial-community functionality under the canopies of Zygophyllum dumosum and Hammada scoparia in the Negev Desert, Israel. Microbial Ecology 62:218–27.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Zhao, H. L. 2012. Desert ecology. Beijing: Science Press.
   Google Scholar
• Zhao, H. L., and R. T. Liu. 2013. The “bug island” effect of shrubs and its formation mechanism in Horqin Sand Land, Inner Mongolia. Catena 105:69–74.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Zhao, H. L., R. L. Zhou, Y. Z. Su, H. Zhang, L. Y. Zhao, and S. Drake. 2007. Shrub facilitation of desert land restoration in the Horqin Sand Land of Inner Mongolia. Ecological Engineering 31:1–8.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ziesche, T. M., and M. Roth. 2008. Influence of environmental parameters on small-scale distribution of soil-dwelling spiders in forests: What makes the difference, tree species or microhabitat? Forest Ecology and Management 255:738–52.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar