Title :

Current use of and future needs for soil invertebrate functional traits in community ecology

Author(s) :

Pey, Benjamin [Auteur]
Centre de Synthèse et d’Analyse sur la Biodiversité [CESAB]
Physicochimie et Ecotoxicologie des SolS d'Agrosystèmes Contaminés [PESSAC]
Nahmani, Johanne [Auteur]
Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive [CEFE]
Auclerc, Apolline [Auteur]
Capowiez, Yvan [Auteur]
Unité de recherche Plantes et Systèmes de Culture Horticoles [PSH]
Cluzeau, Daniel [Auteur]
Ecosystèmes, biodiversité, évolution [Rennes] [ECOBIO]
Cortet, Jérôme [Auteur]
Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive [CEFE]
Decaens, Thibaud [Auteur]
Étude et compréhension de la biodiversité [ECODIV]
Deharveng, Louis [Auteur]
Origine, structure et évolution de la biodiversité [OSEB]
Dubs, Florence [Auteur]
Biogéochimie et écologie des milieux continentaux [Bioemco]
Joimel, Sophie [Auteur]
Laboratoire Sols et Environnement [LSE]
Briard, Charlène [Auteur]
Ecosystèmes, biodiversité, évolution [Rennes] [ECOBIO]
Grumiaux, Fabien [Auteur]
Laboratoire de Génie Civil et Géo-Environnement (LGCgE) - ULR 4515 [LGCgE]
Laporte, Marie-Angélique [Auteur]
UMR 228 Espace-Dev, Espace pour le développement
Pasquet, Alain [Auteur]
Unité de Recherches Animal et Fonctionnalités des Produits Animaux [URAFPA]
Pélosi, Céline [Auteur]
Pernin, Celine [Auteur]
Laboratoire de Génie Civil et Géo-Environnement (LGCgE) - ULR 4515 [LGCgE]
Ponge, Jean-François [Auteur]
Mécanismes Adaptatifs et Evolution [MECADEV]
Salmon, Sandrine [Auteur]
Mécanismes Adaptatifs et Evolution [MECADEV]
Santorufo, Lucia [Auteur]
Laboratoire Sols et Environnement [LSE]
Hedde, Mickael [Auteur correspondant]
Physicochimie et Ecotoxicologie des SolS d'Agrosystèmes Contaminés [PESSAC]

Journal title :

Basic and Applied Ecology

Pages :

194-206

Publisher :

Elsevier

Publication date :

2014-05-01

ISSN :

1439-1791

English keyword(s) :

Ecological preference
Disturbance
Constraint
Thesaurus
Soil fauna
Behaviour
Community ecology
Database management system
Life-history trait

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]/Sciences agricoles/Science des sols

English abstract : [en]

Soil invertebrates are assumed to play a major role in ecosystem dynamics, since they are involved in soil functioning. Functional traits represent one of the main opportunities to bring new insights into the understanding ...
Show more >Soil invertebrates are assumed to play a major role in ecosystem dynamics, since they are involved in soil functioning. Functional traits represent one of the main opportunities to bring new insights into the understanding of soil invertebrate responses to environmental changes. They are properties of individuals which govern their responses to their environment. As no clear conceptual overview of soil invertebrate trait definitions is available, we first stress that previously-described concepts of trait are applicable to soil invertebrate ecology after minor modification, as for instance the inclusion of behavioural traits. A decade of literature on the use of traits for assessing the effects of the environment on soil invertebrates is then reviewed. Trait-based approaches may improve the understanding of soil invertebrate responses to environmental changes as they help to establish relationships between environmental changes and soil invertebrates. Very many of the articles are dedicated to the effect of one kind of stress at limited spatial scales. Underlying mechanisms of assembly rules were sometimes assessed. The patterns described seemed to be similar to those described for other research fields (e.g. plants). The literature suggests that trait-based approaches have not been reliable over eco-regions. Nevertheless, current work gives some insights into which traits might be more useful than others to respond to a particular kind of environmental change. This review also highlights methodological advantages and drawbacks. First, trait-based approaches provide complementary information to taxonomic ones. However the literature does not allow us to differentiate between trait-based approaches and the use of a priori functional groups. It also reveals methodological shortcomings. For instance, the ambiguity of the trait names can impede data gathering, or the use of traits at a species level, which can hinder scientific interpretation as intra-specific variability is not taken into account and may lead to some biases. To overcome these shortcomings, the last part aims at proposing some solutions and prospects. It concerns notably the development of a trait database and a thesaurus to improve data management.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

• Laboratoire Génie Civil et géo-Environnement (LGCgE) - ULR 4515

Source :

Harvested from HAL