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Abstract:- Collembolans are novel indicators of soil for above ground. The productivity of soil directly or
quality as they are enormously diversified in agricultural indirectly depends on the activities and interactions of soil
soils. However, their abundance is ever dynamic due to micro fauna and micro flora. The presence and absence of
the dynamic climatic conditions. In order to ascertain the certain micro flora had an influence over the population of
diversity and relative abundance of Collembola very diverse soil microorganisms such as microarthropods.
associated with wheat field, soil samples were taken at The grazing activity of soil microorganisms is a key function
weekly intervals from selected field of Quarsi village by which they facilitate the soil environment qualitative.
located at Aligarh district of Uttar Pradesh (India). Total Among the soil microarthropods, the interaction of
20 samples were taken for the site study during the Collembolans population with that of habitats has its
investigation period and soil microarthropods extracted profound effect on the nature and fertility of soil. Thus, an
by using modified Tullgren funnel apparatus. The results eco-friendly functional approach of Collembola has
of our study showed that, the species diversity of generalized and their diversity plays a very crucial role in an
Collembolans mainly consists of individuals belonging to agro-ecosystem specifically in wheat field.
family Entomobryoidae, Isotomidae, Hypogastruridae
and Sminthuridae. Among these, Hypogastrurides were Many research workers have concluded that,
dominant (56.84 %) in entire community of Collembola. Collembolans are good bio-indicators of arable soil quality
Soil temperature was negatively correlated (r = -0.932, (Rusek-1998), are very sensitive to variations in soil
P<0.05) with reference to Collembolans population, environment (Parisi-2001) and conditioning to detritus for
whereas soil moisture (r = 0.502, P>0.05) as well as microbial breakdown as well as farming soil to form soil
available nitrogen (r = 0.656, P>0.05) both were positively micro-structure (Chahartaghi-2005). Thus, we focused only
correlated. The highest population of Collembolans was on Collembolans in this study. The reason for this selective
recorded at neutral pH level. In terms of numbers of soil field study is much important that, wheat is an important crop
microarthropods, Collembolans apparently constituted a and used more than 70% human beings as for food
better population than the other diverse group of soil supplement in India. Still, wheat is a first line crop in Uttar
microarthropods such as Acari(mites). The present study Pradesh; however, its medium production recorded in this
has shown profound diversity of Collembolans. region from last two decades.
Fractional Absolute
Month Density Abundance population (%) frequency (%)
50
45 150
40
35
30 100
25
20
15 50
10
5
0 0
November December January February March
Month
RH (%) Temperature (ºc) Soil Moisture (%) Collembolans population
Fig 1:- Monthly variation between Collembola population and edaphic factors.
300 0.26
250 0.25
Soil carbon
content (%)
Data range
200 0.24
0.23
150
0.22
100 0.21
50 0.2
0 0.19
November December January February March
Time