Arthropods in coarse woody debris in jarrah forest and rehabilitated bauxite mines in Western Australia

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Table II

Mean abundance and species richness per log for various arthropod taxa for the three different sampling periods. Data are pooled across the three site types. Numbers in brackets are standard errors. For significant taxa (bold), numbers with the same letter are not significantly different at p = 0.05.

Taxon	Abundance				Richness

	May–Jul	Jul–Aug	Aug–Sep	p	May–Jul	Jul–Aug	Aug–Sep	p
All arthropods	33.3 (5.0)	28.8 (3.7)	33.5 (5.8)	0.743	12.5^a (1.0)	9.6^b (0.6)	9.5^b (0.8)	0.029
Collembola	14.8 (3.2)	9.3 (1.8)	16.4 (5.3)	0.389	3.7 (0.4)	3.0 (0.3)	2.8 (0.3)	0.091
Acarina	8.8 (1.8)	12.7 (2.5)	9.1 (2.3)	0.319	2.4^ab (0.3)	2.7^a (0.2)	1.9^b (0.2)	0.050
Araneida	2.2^a (0.5)	0.9^b (0.3)	0.3^b (0.1)	0.001	1.5^a (0.3)	0.7^b (0.2)	0.3^b (0.1)	0.001
Coleoptera	2.2 (1.3)	0.5 (0.2)	0.2 (0.1)	0.157	0.9^a (0.3)	0.3^b (0.1)	0.3^b (0.1)	0.047
Diptera	2.3^a (0.4)	3.5^a (0.5)	5.3^b (0.8)	0.000	1.5^a (0.2)	1.8^ab (0.3)	2.5^b (0.3)	0.020