Biodiversity of Soil Mesofauna Associated with the Design of Home Gardens in Mapuche Agroecosystems—Case Study in the Araucanía Region

Santiago Peredo Parada (), Claudia Barrera Salas and Sara Burbi
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Santiago Peredo Parada: Group of Agroecology and Environment (GAMA), University of Santiago de Chile, Santiago 7501015, Chile
Claudia Barrera Salas: Group of Agroecology and Environment (GAMA), University of Santiago de Chile, Santiago 7501015, Chile
Sara Burbi: Group of Agroecology and Environment (GAMA), University of Santiago de Chile, Santiago 7501015, Chile

Land, 2023, vol. 12, issue 9, 1-15

Abstract: Home gardens play a transcendental role in food sovereignty, for which the management of habitats above ground and underground are complementary strategies. This study aims to compare the biodiversity of soil mesofauna groups between agroecosystems with a conventional and an agroecological design. Through the combination of quantitative (plant inventories) and qualitative (mobile interviewing and talking maps) techniques, the units of this study was described. Soil samples were mounted in a Berlesse–Tullgren system, and the abundance, richness, diversity, and equality of soil organisms were determined. The relationships between functional groups were compared taxonomically and biocenotically. The results indicated higher equality in the conventional home garden, while the communities studied present a medium taxocenotic similarity, without great biocenotic differences. The diversity and richness of taxa, as well as the abundance in each group identified, were higher in the agroecological garden, which had more medicinal and aromatic plants.

Keywords: agroecology; functional biodiversity; women farmer; ancestral knowledge (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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