Importance of Soil Mesofauna in Agriculture Ecosystem
Ingle Dipak Shyamrao*
Dept. of Entomology, Agriculture College Garhwa, Birsa Agricultural University, Ranchi, Jharkhand (834 006), India
M. Raghuraman
Dept. of Entomology and Agricultural Zoology, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh (221 005), India
Abhinav Kumar
Dept. of Entomology and Agricultural Zoology, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh (221 005), India
Anil Kumar
Dept. of Entomology, Sugarcane Research Institute, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa, Bihar (848 125), India
Rupesh Kumar Gajbhiye
Dept. of Entomology and Agricultural Zoology, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh (221 005), India
DOI: NIL
Keywords: Agriculture, Collembolans, Ecosystem, Mites
Abstract
The soil mesofauna play a significant role to keep our soil healthy and fertile and it may represent as much as 85 percent population. The meso fauna comprises of variety of mites, collembolans, diplurans and proturans. Amongst soil meso arthropods, the Acarina and the Collembolans are the most diverse and abundant group. They play key role in liberating nutrients and increase productivity within the agriculture and forest ecosystem by breakdown process. Worldwide, a total number of 8,600 described species of Collembola and 1,130 individuals belong to 92 species, 47 genera and 16 families of soil mites were noted. Here in this review an effort took to begin and highlight the significance of arthropods as valuable creature of the soil fauna. Such noteworthy appreciation may largely vague from the public knowledge.
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