WASTE DUMPS CONTRIBUTION TO THE EPIGEIC MACROFAUNA FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY ACROSS FARMLAND

• Published in: International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference : SGEM Vol. 1; p. 1183
• Main Authors: Baranova, Beata, Fazekasova, Danica, Manko, Peter
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Sofia Surveying Geology & Mining Ecology Management (SGEM) 01.01.2013
• ISSN: 1314-2704

Waste dump could be commonlyfound across the urbanized or agriculturally used land. Therefore there withstand the question, how do they affect the present soil fauna, the faunal communities of the adjacent habitats and how is theft contribution to the functional diversity of the soil community. Within the study of anthropogenically differently utilized and loaded biotopes, during the seasons 2010, 2011 and 2012, epigeic macrofauna was collected using pitfall traps on totally 30 sites including farmland biotopes i.e. arable land, grass fields, and woody vegetation and illegal, active and reclaimed legal municipal waste dumps in the urban and suburban zone of Presov town and its surrounding, Eastern Slovakia. Higher diversity of waste dumps environment with the lots of microhabitats and food sources and lower measure of anthropogenic soil environment disturbances in comparing to other study biotopes make the waste dumps as the precious natural territories supporting rising of epigeic macrofauna community functional diversity and so playing important role as local diversity hotspots within anthropogenically intensively used cultural landscape.