Document Type
Peer-Review Article
Abstract
Litter-inhabiting Collembola and mites were sampled using pitfall traps over a twelve-month period from four sub-communities within a 100-acre (40-ha) oak-woodland complex in northern Cook County, Illinois. Sampled locations included four areas where future ecological restoration was planned (mesic woodland, dry-mesic woodland, mesic upland forest, and buckthorn-dominated savanna) and a mesic woodland control that would not be restored. Fifty-eight mite and 30 Collembola taxa were identified out of 5,308 and 190,402 individuals trapped, respectively. There was a significant positive relationship between litter mass and both mite diversity and the ratio of Oribatida to Prostigmata and a significant negative relationship between Collembola diversity and litter. Based on multivariate analysis, Collembola and mite composition differed by sub-community and season interaction.
Recommended Citation
Steffen, James F.; Palincsar, Joan; Funk, Florrie M.; and Larkin, Daniel J.
2012.
"Activity and Diversity of Collembola (Insecta) and Mites (Acari) in Litter of a Degraded Midwestern Oak Woodland,"
The Great Lakes Entomologist, vol 45
(1)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22543/0090-0222.2234
Available at:
https://scholar.valpo.edu/tgle/vol45/iss1/1