Microarthropod communities as a tool to assess soil quality and biodiversity: a new approach in Italy |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Evolutionary and Functional Biology, Section Natural History Museum, University of Parma, via Farini 90, I-43100 Parma, Italy;2. Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Parma, Viale delle Scienze, I-43100 Parma, Italy;3. APAT, Department Defense of Nature, Italian Agency for Environment Protection and for Technical Services, Via Curtatone 3, I-00185 Rome, Italy;4. ARPA-Parma, Regional Agency for Environment Protection, Via Spalato 4, I-43100 Parma, Italy;1. Normandie Université, UNIROUEN, Ecodiv URA/EA1293, IRSTEA, FED Scale CNRS 3730, France;2. INRA, UMR 1222 Eco&Sol, Campus SupAgro, Montpellier, France;3. INRA, UR1158 AgroImpact, Barenton-Bugny, France;4. INRA, UMR614 FARE, Reims, France;1. Institut für Biologie, Plant Ecology, Freie Universität Berlin, Altensteinstraße 6, 14195 Berlin, Germany;2. Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), 14195 Berlin, Germany;3. School of Biological Sciences and Institute for Global Food Security, Queen''s University of Belfast, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast BT9 7BL, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom;1. MARE, University of Coimbra, Portugal;2. CFE—Centre for Functional Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Portugal;3. University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland;4. Faculty of Biological Sciences, Leeds University, Leeds, UK;5. Teagasc, Johnstown Castle Research Centre, Wexford, Ireland;1. A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky Prospect 33, Moscow 119071, Russia;2. Moscow State Pedagogical University, Kibalchicha str. 6, Moscow 129164, Russia |
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| Abstract: | Traditional approaches to soil quality evaluation were based on the use of physical, chemical and microbiological indicators. Recently, new methods, based on soil microarthropods have been proposed for soil quality evaluation. Soil microarthropods have been shown to respond sensitively to land management practices and to be correlated with beneficial soil functions. In Italy, a new approach (called QBS index) based on the types of edaphic microarthropods has been proposed to assess soil biological quality. The QBS index is based on microarthropod groups present in a soil sample. Each type found in the sample receives a score from 1 to 20 (eco-morphological index, EMI), according to its adaptation to soil environment. The QBS index sums up these scores, thereby characterizing the microarthropod community of the sample being studied. QBS has been applied on a range of soil types and land uses in Italy, its validity evaluated for assessing biological quality of soil in different situations. This paper describes the QBS methods and presents three applications of the proposed methodology. |
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