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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
A field investigation was undertaken during Kharif-2013 to estimate the population of soil macro arthropods in agriculture, horticulture and forest ecosystems. Soil macro fauna it includes ants, carabids, centipedes, millipedes and others. Among the different eco systems, forest ecosystem recorded more population of soil macro arthropods (214.67/15 pitfall traps) followed by horticulture ecosystem (119.71/15 pitfall traps) and agriculture ecosystem (145.67/15 pitfall traps). Irrespective of farming systems the population of soil macro arthropods gradually increased from first fortnight of June (116.00/15pitfall traps) and reached to peak population during second fortnight of August (225.44/15pitfall traps) and gradually decreased to least population during second fortnight of September (182.33/15pitfall traps).