The impact of experimental forest fire on collembolan communities

Izabella  Olejniczak; Anna Prędecka; Stefan Russel

doi:10.21697/seb.2014.12.4.06

Published: 2014-12-31

Vol. 12 No. 4 (2014)

The impact of experimental forest fire on collembolan communities

Izabella Olejniczak

, Anna Prędecka

, Stefan Russel

Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae

Section: Natural Foundations of Environmental Protection

https://doi.org/10.21697/seb.2014.12.4.06

Abstract

Our study was carried out in fresh pine mixed forest, Biala Forest, near Warsaw (52°59’ N, 21°46’ E and 52°79’ N, 21°89’ E, Eastern Poland). Three experimental plots, 1m² size, were chosen at random and burnt in June. The material was collected: just after the experimental fire (in June ), 30, 60, and 90 days after fire (respectively: in July, August, and September). On every sampling occasion 10 soil samples of an area of 10cm² and a depth of 5 cm were taken in each sampling plots: burnt plots, in the border of burnt plots, and in surroundings of burnt plots.

We found that experimental fire influenced on collembolan densities (Kruskall-Wallis test, H=8.29, P=0.01). Just after the experimental fire we found no collembolans in burnt plots. In a period of 90 days following the experimental fire densities of springtails of burnt and surroundings were similar. Euedaphic springtails were the dominating group in burnt plots and contrary to the border of burnt plots and surroundings, we noticed no epigeic springtails. Contribution of epigeic, hemiedaphic and euedaphic species in collembolan communities of investigated areas could point to different defense strategies of these invertebrates. Immature individuals of Collembola were the most numerous in burnt plots and at the border of burnt plots and this phenomenon is probably crucial for the reconstruction of collembolan communities after the fire.

Keywords:

Collembola, burnt plots, communities, forest

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Olejniczak, I. ., Prędecka , A., & Russel, S. (2014). The impact of experimental forest fire on collembolan communities. Studia Ecologiae Et Bioethicae, 12(4), 115–125. https://doi.org/10.21697/seb.2014.12.4.06

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Izabella Olejniczak

i.olejniczak@uksw.edu.pl
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4746-7874

Affiliation:

Institute of Ecology and Bioethics, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, Poland Poland

Anna Prędecka

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7867-8319

Affiliation:

Department of Soil Environmental Science, Faculty of Agriculture and Biology, Warsaw University of Life Sciences Poland

Stefan Russel

Affiliation:

The Main School of Fire Service, Civil Safety Engineering Faculty, Department of Safety Analyses and Prognosis, Warsaw, Poland Poland