- Title
- Collembola (Springtails)
- Creator
- Greenslade, Penelope; Florentine, Singarayer
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/154989
- Identifier
- vital:11215
- Identifier
- http://dpipwe.tas.gov.au/Documents/Warra Mount Weld Invertebrates.pdf
- Identifier
- ISSN: 1838-7403
- Abstract
- Summary 1. The distributions of Collembola on the Warra-Mount Weld Altitudinal Transect were investigated based on samples taken from February–April 2001, November–December 2001 and January– February 2002. 2. The Collembola of the Warra-Mount Weld Altitudinal Transect was species rich with more than 40 species collected; the majority of species recorded have not been described. 3. Most of the species collected are considered endemic to Tasmania and some endemic genera were present. 4. The Malaise traps performed well indicating that a suite of species are arboreal and highly vagile. 5. No exotic (introduced, alien) species were detected in this study indicating that the area sampled has been little disturbed and is of high conservation value. 6. Altitudinal trends were evident with a small number of species only occurring at the high altitudes and others only at low altitudes. Only a few species appeared to occur at all altitudes sampled. 7. Ordination plots showed that Collembola assemblages at lower altitude sites on the Warra transect were more similar to each other than those at the higher altitude sites on Mount Weld which formed three clusters: 1100; 1200 and 1300 m; and 800, 900 and 1000 m. 8. Mount Weld sites 600 and 700 m faunas were most similar to Warra sites so forming a continuum in altitudinal zonation between Warra and Mount Weld. 9. PERMANOVA analysis of monthly pitfall catches in 2001 and 2002 showed differences between months and altitudes on both transects and that the differences between months were more distinct at the lower altitude Warra sites than on the higher altitude Mount Weld sites. This difference was particularly marked for the month of February, which was the only month surveyed in both years. 10.Much of the change in faunal assemblages along the Warra and Mount Weld altitudinal transect seemed to be the result of changes in vegetation cover. The most abrupt faunal transitions took place across the tree line between 1000 and 1100 m and a smaller change from lowland forest to subalpine woodland on the Mount Weld transect. 11.Much material in the pitfalls was in very poor condition because of the long trapping time with unsuitable preservative so could not be identified to species but rough estimates were made of numbers of individuals in each family or genus.
- Publisher
- Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment.
- Relation
- The distributions of invertebrate species along the Warra/Mt Weld altitudinal transect 2001/2002 and identification of taxa restricted by altitude (part of the Nature Conservation Report Series 13/4) Chapter 6 p.1-73
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- Copyright 2013 Crown in right of State of Tasmania Apart from fair dealing for the purposes of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any means without permission from the Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment.
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Invertebrates; Ecology
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