Abstract
the soil invertebrate community of two Mediterranean ecosystems was studied on Milos Island, in the Aegean Sea: one a Mediterranean-type ecosystem and the other a dune ecosystem. Sampling of macrofauna was carried out for 19 months using pitfall traps. For mesofauna, 25 × 25 cm samples of litter were collected and processed in berlese-tullgern funnels. Specimens were identified to class or order level except for Coleoptera and Hymenoptera Formicidae, which were identified to family level, and the slugs, which included a number of families. Some taxa were identified to species level. Environmental data were also collected. the dominant groups were beetles, ants, and spiders. Diversity and evenness were low in spring and summer and high in autumn and winter in the dune site, and more or less at the same level throughout the year in the Mediterranean-type site. the three most common phenological patterns in both sites were a spring, a summer, and an autumn and winter peak. the composition of the fauna seemed...
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