Larch forests in the permafrost zone of Eastern Eurasia are exposed to frequent wildfires, which expected increase with climate warming. However, little is known about how fire-derived charcoal linked decomposition process these forests. Fire-derived can affect faunal communities forest litter. In a two-year field litterbag experiment, we investigated effect on colonisation by microarthropods (...

A new type of photoreceptor for the phylum Arthropoda, found in the class Collembola (Arthropoda, Hexapoda) is reported. This new light-sensitive structure consists of a pair of interocular vesicles present in the genus Vesicephalus Richards, 1964 and is anatomically related to the cluster of ommatidia. The absence of a lens, the presence of a rabdome in the upper part of the vesicle and the re...

Soil mesofauna plays an important role in decomposing organic matter, recycling nutrients, and increasing nutrient availability. The effects of nitrogen (N) deposition reduced precipitation on the litter-dwelling mesofaunal community how this process affects litter decomposition remain poorly understood. Herein, a two-year simulated N throughfall reduction experiment was carried out natural eve...

The endosymbiont Wolbachia has been detected in a few parthenogenetic collembolans sampled in Europe and America, including three species of Poduromorpha, two species of Entomobryomorpha, and two species of Neelipleona. Based on 16S rRNA and ftsZ gene sequences, most of the Wolbachia infecting parthenogenetic collembolans were characterized as members of supergroup E and showed concordant phylo...