Yulia Evgenyevna Kozlova

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.