Litter decomposition by soil fauna: effect of land use in agroecosystems

Fil: Cassani, Mariano Tomás. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía. Departamento de Ingeniería Agrícola y Uso de la Tierra. Cátedra de Manejo y Conservación de Suelos. Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Autores principales: Cassani, Mariano Tomás, Sabatté, María Leticia, Riveira Rubin, Mailén, Sfeir, Alberto Jorge, Massobrio, Marcelo Juan
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spelling snrd:2022cassani2025-09-08T09:43:08Z Cassani, Mariano Tomás Sabatté, María Leticia Riveira Rubin, Mailén Sfeir, Alberto Jorge Massobrio, Marcelo Juan 2021 Fil: Cassani, Mariano Tomás. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía. Departamento de Ingeniería Agrícola y Uso de la Tierra. Cátedra de Manejo y Conservación de Suelos. Buenos Aires, Argentina. Fil: Sabatté, María Leticia. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía. Departamento de Ingeniería Agrícola y Uso de la Tierra. Cátedra de Manejo y Conservación de Suelos. Buenos Aires, Argentina. Fil: Riveira Rubin, Mailén. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía. Departamento de Producción Vegetal. Cátedra de Cerealicultura. Buenos Aires, Argentina. Fil: Riveira Rubin, Mailén. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA). Buenos Aires, Argentina. Fil: Riveira Rubin, Mailén. CONICET - Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA). Buenos Aires, Argentina. Fil: Sfeir, Alberto Jorge. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Catedra de Conservación y Manejo del Suelo. Azul, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Fil: Massobrio, Marcelo Juan. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía. Departamento de Ingeniería Agrícola y Uso de la Tierra. Cátedra de Manejo y Conservación de Suelos. Buenos Aires, Argentina. Soil fauna plays a key role in organic matter decomposition. Litter decomposition depends on the relationships of soil fauna and microorganisms as well as climate and litter quality. The decomposer community is sensitive to land use. Thus, physical-chemical disturbances, like soil tillage, can exercise important control on the soil fauna. In order to study the effect of land use and its impact on litter decomposition by soil fauna, a litter-bag experiment was conducted in the Pampa Serrana region, Azul district, Argentina. Litter-bags were made in three different mesh-sizes, allowing the access of micro, micro þ meso and micro þ meso þ macrofauna. Four different treatments were defined: naturalized grassland and three agricultural agroecosystems under different tillage systems, i.e., conservation tillage, conventional-conservation tillage and conventional tillage. Decomposition rate and remaining litter were measured across three different seasons. We found that naturalized grassland obtained the highest decomposition rates and the least remaining litter compared to conservation and conventional tillage systems. No difference in litter decomposition was identified among agricultural agroecosystems. Micro þ meso þ macrofauna presented the highest decomposition rate and the lowest remaining litter of soil fauna groups, in all agroecosystems. In contrast, microfauna decomposition rate was the lowest and produced the highest remaining litter. Micro þ mesofauna presented values of decomposition rate and remaining litter that differed significantly from the rest of the groups in some seasons. These results highlight the importance of soil fauna in litter decomposition and the negative effects of different land use systems on litter decomposition by soil fauna. grafs., tbls., fot. application/pdf 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e08127 http://ri.agro.uba.ar/greenstone3/library/collection/arti/document/2022cassani eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess openAccess openAccess http://ri.agro.uba.ar/greenstone3/library/page/biblioteca#section4 Heliyon Vol.7, no.10 e08127 https://www.cell.com/heliyon/about SOIL CONSERVATION COMPLEX SYSTEMS DECOMPOSITION RATE REMAINING LITTER DISTURBANCE LITTER BAG Litter decomposition by soil fauna: effect of land use in agroecosystems info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article publishedVersion info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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topic SOIL CONSERVATION
COMPLEX SYSTEMS
DECOMPOSITION RATE
REMAINING LITTER
DISTURBANCE
LITTER BAG
spellingShingle SOIL CONSERVATION
COMPLEX SYSTEMS
DECOMPOSITION RATE
REMAINING LITTER
DISTURBANCE
LITTER BAG
Cassani, Mariano Tomás
Sabatté, María Leticia
Riveira Rubin, Mailén
Sfeir, Alberto Jorge
Massobrio, Marcelo Juan
Litter decomposition by soil fauna: effect of land use in agroecosystems
topic_facet SOIL CONSERVATION
COMPLEX SYSTEMS
DECOMPOSITION RATE
REMAINING LITTER
DISTURBANCE
LITTER BAG
description Fil: Cassani, Mariano Tomás. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía. Departamento de Ingeniería Agrícola y Uso de la Tierra. Cátedra de Manejo y Conservación de Suelos. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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author Cassani, Mariano Tomás
Sabatté, María Leticia
Riveira Rubin, Mailén
Sfeir, Alberto Jorge
Massobrio, Marcelo Juan
author_facet Cassani, Mariano Tomás
Sabatté, María Leticia
Riveira Rubin, Mailén
Sfeir, Alberto Jorge
Massobrio, Marcelo Juan
author_sort Cassani, Mariano Tomás
title Litter decomposition by soil fauna: effect of land use in agroecosystems
title_short Litter decomposition by soil fauna: effect of land use in agroecosystems
title_full Litter decomposition by soil fauna: effect of land use in agroecosystems
title_fullStr Litter decomposition by soil fauna: effect of land use in agroecosystems
title_full_unstemmed Litter decomposition by soil fauna: effect of land use in agroecosystems
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