Classification of collembolan communities in the East-European taigaстатьяИсследовательская статья
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Аннотация:The data on collembolan communities from 46 forest sites belonging to 6 forest types of 11 regions of Russia, Lithuania, and Belarus were analysed. In coniferous spruce and pine forests (with lichen, cowberry, bilberry, moss and sphagnum ground cover) three types of collembolan communities were distinguishable: mesophilous, xeroresistant and hygrophilous. They are characterized not only by dominant and characteristic species, but by life forms, total collembolan abundance, species diversity and the level of variability of all these features. The type of collembola community are best established in forests of 40 - 100 years age. The suggested classification of collembolan communities is limited to areas of podzol soil; however, Collembola communities usually display these characteristics in coniferous forests grown outside of taiga region, for example, in the mixed forest zone or in the forest-tundra.