Floating Islands: A method to detect aquatic dispersal and colonisation potential of soil microarthropods
Keywords:
Oribatida, Collembola, water transport, dispersal, river marshesAbstract
In floodplains and river marshes, aquatic dispersal is a potential way of migration for soil microarthropods. However, this migration pathway and particularly the colonisation potential after aquatic dispersal in freshwater systems has never been studied before, probably because suitable methods were missing. We therefore developed a method based on artificial floating islands that are filled with defaunated soil as colonisation medium. The islands can be installed in freshwater streams to investigate colonisation potential of soil microarthropods after aquatic dispersal. In combination with small fishing nets and sticky covers they allow disentangling just drifting species from actually colonising ones as well as the detection of individuals introduced to the stream by wind. First testing showed that the islands are a valuable, low-priced and easy-to-handle tool that already allowed recording colonisation of Oribatida, Gamasina, Collembola and Myriapoda after aquatic dispersal.
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