Impact of the vital activity of soil-living tipulidae larvae (tipula maxima) on the soil biological activity

Abstract

The effects of the crane-fly larvae (Diptera, Tipulidae) on the functional diversity of soil microbial communities, as well as the activity of the processes of transformation of nitrogen and carbon in the soil, were studied. It has been established that the rate of nitrogen fixation, denitrification and methanogenesis significantly increases as a result of the life activity of larvae in the soil, the indices of functional diversity (the number of consumed substrates, the metabolic work) and the stability of the microbial complex increase.

References

1. Cook D.M., Henriksen Е.С., Upcurch R., Peterson J.B.D. Isolation of Polymer-Degrading Bacteria and Characterization of the Hindgut Bacterial Community from the Detritus-Feeding Larvae of Tipula abdominalis (Diptera: Tipulidae) //Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007. Vol. 73, N 17.

2. Kane M.D., Mueller U.G. Insights from insectmicrobe symbioses // Biodiversity of microbial life / Ed. by J.T. Staley, A.-L. Reysenbach. N.Y., 2002.

3. Kieft T.L. New allometric scaling laws revealed for microorganisms //Trends in Ecol. Evolut. 2017. Vol. 32, N 6.

4. Klug M.J., Kotarski S. Bacteria associated with the gut tract of larval stages of the aquatic cranefly Tipula abdominalis (Diptera: Tipulidae) // Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 1980. Vol. 40, N2.

5. Majeed M.Z., Miambi E., Barois I. et al. Contribution of white grubs (Scarabaeidae: Coleoptera) to N2O emissions from tropical soils // Soil Biol. Biochem. 2014. Vol. 75.

6. Oosterbroek P. Catalogue of the Craneflies of the World (Insecta, Diptera, Nematocera, Tipuloidea), 2007. URL:            http://ip30.eti.uva.nl/ccw/ (date: 11.04.2007).

7. Perel T.S., Karpachevsky L.O., Yegorova E.V. The role of Tipulidae larvae (Diptera) in decomposition of forest litter-fall // Pedologia. 1971. Vol. 11.