Soil arthropods are an essential part of ecosystem contributing significantly to maintaining biodiversity and functioning. The present study was conducted investigate the diversity abundance soil in selected habitats Jahangirnagar University campus, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Sampling at three different habitats, viz., woodland (W), grassland with herbs (GH), (WH), from February 2022 July using ...

Antlion larvae that construct conical pits to capture prey may strongly affect foraging of ants and other arthropods, yet are usually abundant only in sheltered microhabitats. Larval antlion (Myrmeleon crudelisWalker) densities increased in exposed areas in central Texas in late summer and early autumnof 1998, presumably because of extended dry conditions. I conducted a study to quantify larval...

The global distribution of soil animals and the relationship of below-ground biodiversity to above-ground biodiversity are not well understood. We examined 17,516 environmental 18S rRNA gene sequences representing 20 phyla of soil animals sampled from 11 locations covering a range of biomes and latitudes around the world. No globally cosmopolitan taxa were found and only 14 of 2,259 operational...

Aim of study: The study epigeic arthropods provides information on how ecosystems respond to different management practices. Changes in the structure groups reflect changes ecological status habitats. We assessed influence semi-natural habitats and environmental variables dispersion groups.
 Area Southwestern part Slovakia
 Material methods: Between 2018 2020, six barley (Hordeum vulg...

Soil characteristics, disturbance histories, and species richness among distinct groups of plants and animals may be useful predictors of important conservation areas when data are limited. We used multivariate analysis of covariance to test the hypothesis that the species richness of plants, arthropods, herpetofauna, and breeding birds are correlated and increase with soil fertility (silt and ...

Previous studies have found that Met52®, which contains the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium brunneum, is effective in reducing the abundance of Ixodes scapularis, the tick vector for the bacterium causing Lyme disease and for other tick-borne pathogens. Given widespread interest in effective, safe methods for controlling ticks, Met52 has the potential to be used at increasing scales. The no...