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Data collection.<br />

The abundance and diversity of invertebrates were monitored by extracting soil cores three<br />

times in winter (before spraying and 20 and 40 days after spraying) and twice in spring<br />

(before spraying and 30 days after spraying): without removing the plant cover, a bucket<br />

auger was pressed down to the soil to collect samples from the top 10 cm of soil. Soil cores<br />

(9 cm diameter, 10 cm high) were extracted and bagged to prevent <strong>de</strong>siccation and animal<br />

escape. In the winter experiment 120 cores were taken from every site and 30 cores were<br />

taken from each plot in the spring experiment.<br />

In the laboratory, 70% of the cores were put on extraction trails and the remaining 30%<br />

were put on Berlese-Tullgren funnels (Carrillo et al., 2003), active for 96 h. These<br />

proportions were kept constant across sites and dates, thus counts from both extraction<br />

methods were pooled. All material from funnels and trails was sieved onto a screen cloth<br />

and invertebrates were poured into a Petri dish. Specimens were examined un<strong>de</strong>r a<br />

stereoscopic microscope, counted and classified to the lowest possible taxonomic level.<br />

I<strong>de</strong>ntification was performed using keys and illustrations provi<strong>de</strong>d by CSIRO (1991) and<br />

Artigas (1994) as well as comparing them with those already i<strong>de</strong>ntified in the Entomology<br />

Laboratory Collection, Universidad Austral <strong>de</strong> Chile (UACH). Arthropods were stored in<br />

70% ethanol and representative specimens were mounted and <strong>de</strong>posited in the UACH<br />

Insect Collection.<br />

Data analysis<br />

Species richness curves, Shannon in<strong>de</strong>x, Hurlbert’s PIE and dominance were calculated<br />

using ECOSIM software (Gotelli y Colwell, 2001; Gotelli and Entsminger, 2004). We set<br />

up 1000 iterations for generating 95% confi<strong>de</strong>nce intervals (CI) through a Monte Carlo<br />

procedure and if calculated CI of two in<strong>de</strong>xes did not overlap, they statistically differed at<br />

α = 0.05.<br />

The foliage and soil counts of colony forming units (CFU) were submitted to one way<br />

ANOVA, with time as factor. Means were compared by Fisher’s least significant difference<br />

test (LSD, p=0.05). The analyses were performed in S-PLUS 2000 software (MathSoft Inc.,<br />

Cambridge, USA).<br />

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