Biodiversity of earthworm species relative to different flora
2006
Sarwar, M. (Government Coll. Univ., Faisalabad (Pakistan)) | Nadeem, A. (Government Coll. Univ., Faisalabad (Pakistan)) | Iqbal, M.K. (Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Lahore (Pakistan)) | Shafiq, T. (Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Lahore (Pakistan))
To study the effect of different flora on earthworms diversity, the specimens were collected from Guava, Mango, Citrus, Date palm and Mulberry fields. Total 480 sampling sites, 30 sampling sites a week (6 for each fruit tree) were selected randomly by replacement sampling method. Mango field harbored the maximum number (14) of species (Pheretima posthuma, P. taprobanae, P. minima, P. lignicola, P. anomala, P. californica, P. carinensis, P. differenges, P. suctoria, P. bourna, P. hawayana, Eutyphous ineammodus, Apporectodea longa, Apporectodea caliginosa) where as Mulbery field harbored minimum number of earthworms species (6) (P. posthuma, P. minima, P. lignicola, P. morrisi, P. suctoria, P. birmanica, P. differenges, P. californica and M. mouritici) during the study period. Ranking of earthworm communities inhabiting different fruit tree fields was found to be mango (14), guava (11), date palm (10), citrus (10), and mulberry (6) regarding their species complexity.
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