08Jun 2017

A STUDY ON VARIATION OF SOIL ACARINE POPULATIONS AT THREE ECOLOGICALLY MODIFIED HABITATS.

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Soil samples were collected from three ecologically modified sites- a waste disposal site, a roadside, bank of a sewage canal and a forest floor as a control site. One-way ANOVA indicated sites were different in terms of variance (p<0.05) while Tukey test indicated significant difference of means of abundance between the control site and the polluted sites. Annual and seasonal patterns of fluctuations were more or less same among the sites. Least abundant population of acarines was observed at the waste disposal site.

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[Manabendra Nath Moitra. (2017); A STUDY ON VARIATION OF SOIL ACARINE POPULATIONS AT THREE ECOLOGICALLY MODIFIED HABITATS. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Jun). 259-267] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

Dr. Manabendra Nath Moitra
Deptt. of Zoology, P. D. Women's College, Jalpaiguri-735101

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/4406      
DOI URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/4406

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