Diversidad y control biológico de insectos - CyberTesis UACh ...
Diversidad y control biológico de insectos - CyberTesis UACh ...
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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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