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Title: Abundance and diversity of soil invertebrates in annual crops, agroforestry and forest ecosystems in the Nilgiri
biosphere reserve of Western Ghats, India.
Authors: P. Mujeeb Rahman • R. V. Varma • G. W.
Sileshi
Journal: Agroforest Syst
DOI 10.1007/s10457-011-9386-3
In this paper, how forest clearance and landuse landcover change affected soil biodiversity is studied and narrated well. Here impact of human beings on landuse change and how the landuse change affected soil biodiversity is summarized. The work is carried out in one of the hottest hotspot of the world, the western ghats, India.
Summary:
Biologically mediated soil processes rely
on soil biota to provide vital ecosystem services in
natural and managed ecosystems. However, land use
changes continue to impact on assemblages of soil
biota and the ecosystem services they provide. The
objective of the present study was to assess the effect
of land use intensification on the distribution and
abundance of soil invertebrate communities in the
Nilgiri, a human-dominated biosphere reserve of
international importance.
Soil invertebrates were
sampled in 15 land use practices ranging from simple
and intensively managed annual crop fields and
monoculture tree plantations through less intensively
managed agroforestry and pristine forest ecosystems.
The lowest taxonomic richness was found in annual
crops and coconut monoculture plantations, while the
highest was in moist-deciduous and semi-evergreen
forests. With 21 ant species, agroforestry systems had
the highest diversity of ants followed by forest
ecosystems (12 species).