Assessing soil quality of Italian Western Alps protected areas by QBS-ar: impact of management and habitat type on soil microarthropods

T Fusco, L Fortini, F Casale, C Jacomini… - Environmental Monitoring …, 2023 - Springer
Soil fauna has a crucial importance for the functioning of ecosystems and their conservation.
Soil biota has a role in soil formation and distribution of organic matter, and groups like …

[HTML][HTML] Long-term post-fire recovery of oribatid mites depends on the recovery of soil properties in a fire-adapted pine forest

J Farská, V Jílková, LE Frelich, J Starý… - Trees, Forests and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Fire is a highly important factor affecting the forest structure as well as its functions. The
understanding of the post-fire recovery mechanisms could be especially useful in the face of …

Combinative effects of thinning and prescribed burning on fuel reduction and soil arthropods: A case study in a Mediterranean pine forest

P Longeard, M Santonja, F Morandini… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfire pressure involves today to implement silvicultural practices that provide a good
compromise between reducing fire risk and maintaining ecological functioning. Thinning …

Fast soil recovery after a fire: case study in Maritime Alps (Piedmont, Italy) using microarthropods and QBS-ar index

T Fusco, L Fortini, F Casale, C Jacomini… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Soil is a very fragile ecosystem, often subject to many threats. Wildfires can affect edaphic
communities depending on the intensity and seasonality of the fire. Different groups of soil …

Microarthropod responses to fire: vegetation cover modulates impacts on Collembola and Acari assemblages in Mediterranean area

L Santorufo, V Memoli, Z Monica, G Santini… - Fire Ecology, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Background In the Mediterranean region, fire is a recurring disturbance that impacts
both surface and underground organisms. While the effects on plants and surface animals …

Long-term belowground impacts of experimental fire and post-fire soil stabilization treatments in a gorse shrubland

N Carrera, R Juan-Ovejero - Applied Soil Ecology, 2025 - Elsevier
Wildfires represent the foremost disruption in shrublands across the region of Galicia (NW
Spain) and their severity is predicted to increase in the context of climate change. To …

Non-native and native tree species plantations and seasonality could have substantial impacts on the diversity of indigenous soil fauna in a semi-arid forest ecosystem

M Karamian, J Mirzaei, M Heydari… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
The temporal and spatial dynamics of soil fauna in many terrestrial ecosystems are still not
fully understood, while soil fauna is one of the most critical characteristics in assessing soil …

The Short-Term Responses of Forest Soil Invertebrate Communities to Typhoon Disturbances

F Xuan, X Pan, M Qin, R Cao, H Shen, Y Jiang, J Hou… - Forests, 2024 - mdpi.com
Knowledge regarding the response of soil invertebrate communities to typhoon disturbance
is limited, although it is known that soil invertebrates are sensitive to forest disturbances and …

Characteristics of soil arthropod communities and soil health in 'Shushanggan'apricot forests after soil bioengineering remediation in the riparian zone of the Ili River …

Z Jiang, D Cui, Y Yang, W Liu, Z Zinhar, J Yan… - Ecological …, 2025 - Elsevier
To investigate the impact of riparian soil bioengineering restoration on the soil ecological
environment, this study used soil arthropods as bioindicators to assess and monitor the …

[HTML][HTML] Soil Microarthropods as Tools for Monitoring Soil Quality: The QBS-ar Index in Three European Agroecosystems

F Gallese, L Gismero-Rodriguez, A Govednik… - Agriculture, 2025 - mdpi.com
The QBS-ar, based on the study of microarthropod community structure, is well known as a
quick and low-cost indicator to monitor soil biological quality at the farm scale. Temperature …