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- Title
Assessing Diversity and Abundance of Soil Microarthropods in Three Discrete Plots of Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Ashrama, Narendrapur, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India.
- Authors
Saha, Sumana; Sarkar, Mithun; Raychaudhuri, Dinendra
- Abstract
Diversity and seasonal abundance of soil inhabiting arthropod fauna and their interrelationships with the edaphic factors like temperature, moisture and pH in flower garden, vegetable garden and uncultivated area dominated by weeds in Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama Campus, Narendrapur, South - 24 Parganas, West Bengal are studied. The soil arthropods are collected with the help of Berlese-Tullgren funnels. Altogether 591 arthropods belonging to 7 different groups viz., Acarina, Arachnida, Collembola, Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera and Psocoptera are extracted from each of the three plots every month during entire survey period (August 2018 - July 2019). Microarthropod abundance is more in uncultivated area (266 individuals) as compared to that of the flower and vegetable gardens where different agronomic practices are adopted and traditional means of garden nurturing viz. tilling, raking, weeding, etc. are followed. Of the total population in all three plots mites are the most dominant group (37.06%) followed by ants (25.21%) & springtail (19.29%) populations. Soil arthropods are more in monsoon (227 individuals) followed by premonsoon (188 individuals) & postmonsoon (176 individuals).
- Subjects
ARTHROPODA; BEETLES; VEGETABLE gardening; PSOCOPTERA; TILLAGE
- Publication
World News of Natural Sciences (WNOFNS), 2020, Vol 31, p58
- ISSN
2543-5426
- Publication type
Article