Feeding guilds in Collembola based on nitrogen stable isotope ratios

By Masoumeh Chahartaghi, R. Langel, S. Scheu, Liliane Ruess. 2005

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Paleontology

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Carbon flux through fungi and bacteria into the forest soil animal food web as indicated by compound-specific 13C fatty acid analysis (2012, result): “This is in line with the findings of Chahartaghi et al. (2005), who designated species of Lepidocyrtus as secondary decomposers.”
Plant species richness drives the density and diversity of Collembola in temperate grassland (2011, background): “As most species of Collembola at least in part feed on soil microorganisms (Rusek, 1998; Chahartaghi et al., 2005), increased microbial biomass (Eisenhauer et al.”
Collembola switch diet in presence of plant roots thereby functioning as herbivores. (2009, background): “However, as indicated by stable isotope analyses the micro-niches exploited by different species of Collembola consist of very different food resources (Chahartaghi et al., 2005) suggesting that in the field the diet of Collembola species differs markedly.”
Use of stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes in insect trophic ecology (2015, background): “Other N isotopic studies also have provided evidence on the diversification of feeding habits among soil microarthropods, such as oribatid mites (Schneider et al. 2004; Maraun et al. 2011) and collembolans (Chahartaghi et al. 2005).”
Where are the decomposers? Uncovering the soil food web of a tropical montane rain forest in southern Ecuador using stable isotopes (15N) (2005, result): “It has been suggested recently that several species of putative litter-feeding oribatid mites are not primary decomposers but mainly feed on fungi or are predatory or necrophagous (Schneider et al. 2004), and similar results have been obtained for collembolans (Chahartaghi et al. 2005).”