Soil macrofauna in wooded pasture with legume trees

Abstract

Grasslands afforestation aims at adding different soil uses in a way they become proftable for their owners. As such handling aims at minimizing impacts, the current study had as its goal the use of soil macrofauna in order to evaluate legume afforestation effects on the soil, regardless the depth. Thus, nitrogen fxing species were inserted onto grassland areas and the macrofauna collection was performed 6 years after their planting in the 0-10cm, 10-20cm and 20.30cm layers, in winter and summer. Leguminous infuence was different between depths and times of the year. It mostly favors communities under “Mimosa” Genus treetops. Besides, the effects from climatic seasonal variations on invertebrates were mitigated by the implementation of such legume trees.