Peculiarities of taxonomic and ecological structure of forest toxocene of Collembola of Eastern Pоdillya

Abstract

We have made a comparative analysis of the taxonomic and ecological structure of forest taxa of the collemboles of Eastern Podillya. 71 species of collemboles belonging to 40 genera and 15 families were found in the study area. It was found that the structure of dominance, spectra of life forms and biotope groups of the studied taxocenes have their own specifics due to local edaphic conditions, as well as the origin of forest phytocenoses. The ratio of life forms and biotope groups, as well as the structure of the dominance of taxonomies of Collemboles, can be considered as an indicator of the ecological regime of forest edaphotopes of Eastern Podillya. It is established that in different forest phytocenoses of Eastern Podillya, and two different types of Collemboles taxocenes were formed: 1) prefabricated type – in semi-natural hornbeam oak and 2) specialized type – in artificially created forest phytocenoses, where more than 40% of the number have meadow-steppe species.