Producción secundaria de artrópodos estimada mediante trampas de emergencia en dos bosques del Montseny (Barcelona)

Part of the secondary production was evaluated in a montane holm-oak wood and a beechwood in the Montseny mountains. The production estimates of emergent adults were necessarily underestimates, since the mortality of immature forms was not taken into account. Most part of the emergent adults were Di...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Ascaso, Carlos
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:1989
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:38950
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/38950
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Arthropods
Beech forest
Emergence traps
Holm-oak forest
Mediterranean forest ecosystems
Secondary production
Soil fauna
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Sumario:Part of the secondary production was evaluated in a montane holm-oak wood and a beechwood in the Montseny mountains. The production estimates of emergent adults were necessarily underestimates, since the mortality of immature forms was not taken into account. Most part of the emergent adults were Diptera (60 % and 72 % of total emerged individuals in the holm-oak and beech forests, respectively) and Hymenoptera (8 %) in both forests. Secondary production between May 1981 and June 1982 was estimated as 11,2,10 6 individuals/ha/year and 3.7 kg/ha/year in the holm-oak wood, and as 5.8 10 6 individuals/ha/year and 7.2 kg/ha/year in the beechwood. The most abundant families of Diptera were Cecidomyiidae, Sciaridae, Mycetophilidae and Chironomidae in the holm-oak forest; and Cedidomyiidae, Sciaridae and Empididae in the beech forest. Most of te biomass emerges during the summer under beech, and during the spring and the end of summer under holm-oak. It was estimated that the arthropods captured in emergence traps consume 288 kglhalyear of vegetable matter in the holm-oak site and 489 kg/ha[year in the beech sile (286 kgthalyear if Bibionidae are excluded). This consumption rate amounts to 5.5 % of the annual litterfall contribution in the holm-oak forest and between 6.6 % and 11.3 % in the beech forest.