Soil micro—arthropods of a virgin forest and adjoining tea fields in the Western Ghats in Kerala—a brief ecological study

Prabhoo, N. R.

doi:10.1080/00305316.1976.10432344

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“…Among arthropods, oribatid mites and collembolans have a great potential as bioindicators of environmental conditions [29,30], land use intensification [31]. The mites and collembolans constitute 72 to 97 per cent of the total arthropod fauna of Indian soil [32][33][34]. The importance of feeding of both the macroand microarthropods vary among different ecosystems [35].…”

Section: Soil Zoology In India: Historymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Sanyal [61] has reviewed the ecological studies of soil oribatid mites in India. Later on, the tropical forest soil and litter microarthropods were studied [32,62]. Most of the recent literatures on Indian soil fauna are again from the agricultural fields.…”

Section: Soil Zoology In India: Historymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Among the four suborders of mites, Cryptostigmata always dominated others followed by Mesostigmata, Prostigmata and Astigmata except some habitats [32,61,67,87,[149][150][151][152][153]. In prairie also Cryptostigmata can be among the most diverse mite suborder [154].…”

Section: Acaridei ( = Astigmata)mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Soil Fauna: A Retrospection with Reference to Indian Soil

2016

International Journal of Research Studies in Zoology

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Soil is a living, dynamic ecosystem. Healthy soil is packed with microscopic and larger organisms that perform many vital functions including converting dead and decaying matter as well as minerals to plant nutrients. Different soil organisms feed on different organic substrates. Their biological activity depends on the organic matter supply. Nutrient exchanges between organic matter, water and soil are essential to soil fertility and need to be maintained for sustainable production purposes. Where the soil is exploited for crop production without restoring the organic matter and nutrient contents and maintaining a good structure, the nutrient cycles are broken, soil fertility declines and the balance in the agro-ecosystem is destroyed. Soil organic matter-the product of on-site biological decomposition-affects the chemical and physical properties of the soil and its overall health. Soil ecosystem supports a complex of animal communities of which soil arthropods were of prime importance since they constitute the major component of soil mesofauna in all types of soils. The soil arthropods includes a variety of mites, collembolans, pseudoscorpions, centipedes, millipedes, symphylans, diplurans, proturans, hymenopterans, coleopterans etc. they play an important role in releasing nutrients and improve productivity within the forest ecosystem (less disturbed ecosystem) by decomposition process. Mostly they are present with numerically abundant in the undisturbed, natural forest. Among the soil arthropod Acarina and Collembola are the most diverse as well as abundant group. The present article reviews the research work done in this field with reference to India. A detail account of update distribution of acarines and collembolans (bulk of the soil fauna) and their ecology was given.

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Section: Soil Zoology In India: Historymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Soil Zoology In India: Historymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Soil Fauna: A Retrospection with Reference to Indian Soil

2016

International Journal of Research Studies in Zoology

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“…Apart from soil microarthropods, Collembolans and Acarina (mites) might infer the degree of exploitation of available resources and complementarily affect ecosystem services. In most of Indian soil ecosystems, these two groups diversified up to 72-97 % among microarthropods (Reddy and Alfred 1992, Singh and Mukharji 1971, Singh and Pillai 1975, and Prabhoo 1976 thus dominate in most kind of soils (Zhu et al 2010;Brahmam et al 2010;Parwez and Abbas 2012). Therefore, there is an ample scope of use of these key biological components mostly in tropical and subtropical agricultural ecosystems.…”

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Diversity of Microarthropods in Different Habitats: An Ecological Perspective

Mehran

Parwez

2019

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Soil biological communities are influenced by several factors like edaphic factors, environmental variables, soil nutrients availability and anthropogenic changes including urban development and agricultural practices. Edaphic factors exert the conditions directly to influence microarthropods populations. To test this hypothesis, a question has been addressed; how factors regulate the ecosystem functions in contemporary a combined fashion? We observed, vegetation and habitat conditions both have close relationship and profoundly affect microarthropods populations particularly affect on local scale, resulted microclimatic influence of edaphic matrix which is generally system oriented. It is further discussed in this paper, on what attempt possible for better functional use of microarthropods which is important for conservation and for better output as a result of soil productivity in contemporary harsh climatic conditions with minimum use of amendments. It has been concluded in this study that diverse species found in structurally diverse habitats where they often appear to specialized conditions in native agricultural ecosystem.

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Seasonal abundance of soil-surface arthropods in relation to some meteorological and edaphic variables of the grassland and tree-planted areas in a tropical semi-arid savanna

Reddy

Venkataiah

1990

Int J Biometeorol

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Soil micro—arthropods of a virgin forest and adjoining tea fields in the Western Ghats in Kerala—a brief ecological study

Cited by 7 publications

References 1 publication

Soil Fauna: A Retrospection with Reference to Indian Soil

Soil Fauna: A Retrospection with Reference to Indian Soil

Diversity of Microarthropods in Different Habitats: An Ecological Perspective

Seasonal abundance of soil-surface arthropods in relation to some meteorological and edaphic variables of the grassland and tree-planted areas in a tropical semi-arid savanna

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