Disturbances are intrinsic drivers of structure and function in ecosystems, hence predicting their effects in forest ecosystems is essential for forest conservation and/or management practices. Yet, knowledge regarding belowground impacts of disturbance events still remains little understood and can greatly vary by taxonomic and functional identity, disturbance type and local environmental conditions. To address this gap in knowledge, we conducted a survey of soil-dwelling Protura, across forests subjected to different disturbance regimes (i.e. windstorms, insect pest outbreaks and clear-cut logging). We expected that the soil proturan assemblages would differ among disturbance regimes. We also hypothesized that these differences would be driven primarily by variation in soil physicochemical properties thus the impacts of forest disturbances would be indirect and related to changes in food resources. To verify that sampling included two geographically distant subalpine glacial lake catchments that differed in underlying geology, each having four different types of forest disturbance, i.e. control, bark beetle outbreak (BB), windthrow + BB (wind + BB) and clear-cut. As expected, forest disturbance had negative effects on proturan diversity and abundance, with multiple disturbances having the greatest impacts. However, differences in edaphic factors constituted a stronger driver of variability in distribution and abundance of proturans assemblages. These results imply that soil biogeochemistry and resource availability can have much stronger effects on proturan assemblages than forest disturbances.

干扰是生态系统结构和功能的内在驱动力，因此预测其对森林生态系统的影响对于森林保护和/或管理实践至关重要。然而，关于干扰事件在地下的影响的知识仍然鲜为人知，并且可能因分类和功能特性，干扰类型和当地环境条件而有很大差异。为了解决这一知识差距，我们对遭受不同干扰制度（例如，暴风雨，虫害暴发和伐木）的森林中的土壤Protura进行了调查。我们预计，不同干扰制度下的土壤proturan组合会有所不同。我们还假设，这些差异将主要由土壤理化性质的变化驱动，因此森林干扰的影响将是间接的，并且与粮食资源的变化有关。为了验证采样是否包括两个地理上不同的地理上不同的亚高山冰川湖流域，每个流域都具有四种不同类型的森林干扰，即控制，树皮甲虫暴发（BB），风投+ BB（风+ BB）和砍伐。不出所料，森林干扰对proturan多样性和丰度具有负面影响，其中多重干扰的影响最大。但是，营养因素的差异是分布和丰富的proturan组合多样性的更强驱动力。