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Comparative ecology of vascular plant, bryophyte and testate amoeba communities in four <i>Sphagnum</i> peatlands along an altitudinal gradient in Switzerland

Auteur(s)
Koenig, Isabelle 
Institut de biologie 
Editeur(s)
Feldmeyer-Christe, Elizabeth
Mitchell, Edward AD
In
Ecological Indicators, Elsevier, 2015/54//48-59
Mots-clés
  • Peatland ecology

  • Bioindication

  • Testate amoebae

  • Vascular plants

  • Bryophytes

  • Community ecology

  • Elevation gradient

Résumé
Monitoring tools are needed to assess changes in peatland biotic communities and ecosystem functions in response to on-going climate and other environmental changes. Although the responses of soil organisms and plants to ecological gradients and perturbations do not always correlate, peatland monitoring is mainly based on vegetation surveys. Testate amoebae, a group of protists, are important contributors to carbon and nitrogen cycling in organic soils and are useful bioindicators in peatland ecology and paleoecology. There is however little comparative data on the value of testate amoebae, vascular plants and bryophytes as bioindicators of micro-environmental gradients in peatlands. <br> We compared the relationships of testate amoebae, bryophytes, and vascular plants with soil temperature, water table depth, micro-habitats and the carbon and nitrogen content of <i>Sphagnum</i> mosses in four peatlands along a 1300 m altitudinal gradient in Switzerland. We used the full diversity of vascular plants and bryophyte but only a selection of ten easily identifiable testate amoeba morpho-taxa (i.e. species or species-complexes). <br> Indirect and direct gradient ordinations, multiple factor analysis (MFA) and transfer function models for inferring water table depth showed that a selection of ten testate amoeba taxa are more powerful (% variance explained in RDA) and accurate (discrimination among habitats) indicators of local conditions (micro-habitat type, water table depth and <i>Sphagnum</i> C/N ratio) than the vegetation (vascular plants and bryophytes either individually or combined and considering the full diversity). <br> Our study showed that a limited list of ten easily identifiable testate amoeba taxa have higher bioindication value than the full bryophytes and vascular plants. Furthermore, testate amoebae can be analyzed on samples collected at any season (accessibility allowing and if precise sampling sites are well marked) – a clear advantage for biomonitoring and can be used to infer past changes from the peat record at the same taxonomic resolution. This simple approach could therefore be very useful for biomonitoring of peatlands.
URI
https://libra.unine.ch/handle/123456789/7981
DOI
10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.01.043
Autre version
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.01.043
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 main article: Koenig_I.-Comparative_ecology-20150304.pdf (2.24 MB)
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