On regional variability of major soil microarthropod groups at four different edaphic systems in the northern alluvial plains of Bengal, India
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- 1Pundari High School (H.S.), Dakshin Dinajpur, West Bengal, INDIA.
- 2Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Gour Banga University, West Bengal, INDIA.
- 3Department of Zoology, P. D. Women’s College, West Bengal, INDIA.
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K. Chakrobarty
Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Gour Banga University, West Bengal, INDIA.
Received: 14-01-2015; Accepted: 12-03-2015.
Volume 4, Issue 1 · pp. 65-70 · 2015 · DOI:
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Soil samples were collected from four different sites - an agricultural field, a river basin, a brick field and a forest floor located in the alluvial plains of northern part of Bengal. Soil acarines dominated the region followed by collembolans. In a few collection efforts however, percentage abundances of collembolans appeared higher than acarines. Group-wise variation in microarthropod communities in the area was significant (p<0.05). Cluster analysis indicated greater similarity between agricultural field and forest floor than between brick field and river basin.
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Sarkar, S. K., Chakrobarty, K., & Moitra, M. N. (2015). On regional variability of major soil microarthropod groups at four different edaphic systems in the northern alluvial plains of Bengal, India. Asian Journal of Biological and Life Sciences, 4(1), 65-70.
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