Edafic fauna has been used as a biological parameter for monitoring the quality of agricultural systems; in closed landfill sites, its study, especially in Brazil, still is incipient. In that sense, it was carried out a study in a constructed soil (SC) in a closed landfill site at Santa Maria, RS, Brazil taking as comparative two areas under different uses on the neighborhood: native pasture (CN) and an ecologically-managed farm (LA), with the aim to analyze the quality and stability of those systems. Collection was carried out two times in January and February of 2007, when eight PROVID traps were installed aleatorialy in each area during three days. It was observed a prevalence of Collembola, Hymenoptera, Acarina and Coleoptera groups in the composition of the edafic fauna of the studied sites. SC had the largest total abundance, with prevalence of Collembola group (17.6 times greater than in LA), as well as in CN. In LA the Order Hymenoptera was the one of larger expression. Collection times influenced the behavior of edafic fauna attributes in SC and CN, except in LA, where alterations in vegetable community determined its behavior. Sequence LA > CN > SC is the one that best represents the qualitative conditions of the evaluated sites.
soil fauna; closed landfill; soil quality; environmental stability
