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Diversity and Abundance of Spider and Other Soil Animals as Influenced by Fertilization and Their Effect on Yield of Onion at Fayoum Governorate, Egypt

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Tags

Ecology
Spider mite

Abstract

A field experiment was conducted on onion plants, Giza 20 at Ibshway, Fayoum governorate, Egypt in winter season (2017-2018). Compost manure was applied in the main plots and nitrogen and Phosphors levels were applied in the sub plots to study the interaction effects on the biodiversity of spider, soil animals and the yield of onion. Spiders and soil animals were sampled using pitfall traps. Community composition of collected spiders was determined using the Shannon-Wiener and Simpson Indices of diversity. A total of 1080 spiders included 9 families, 22 genera, 22 species and 704 spiders included 8 families, 20 genera, and 20 species were collected in compost manure treatment and zero compost respectively. According to Simpson, Family Laycosidae recorded the highest number of spiders. Sorensen Quotient of Similarity between compost compared zero compost concluded that 80%, of similarity. A total of 8097 individuals in compost manure and 6506 individuals in Zero compost system were counted from 9 observations on onion plants from seedling to maturity by using pitfall trap. Statistical analysis for spider, soil fauna, yield and various parameters were discussed.

DOI

10.21608/ajesa.2019.164157

Keywords

Fauna, biodiversity, Spider, compost, nitrogen, phosphor, fertilizer, yield

Authors

First Name

Ayman

Last Name

Zaki

MiddleName

Youssef

Affiliation

Vegetable and Aromatic Plant Mites Department, Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Agricultural Research Centre (ARC)

Email

ayzaki1975@yahoo.com

City

Fayoum

Orcid

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First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Aly

MiddleName

I.

Affiliation

Vegetable Research Dept, Horticulture Res. Inst., Agric. Res, Centre, Dokii, Giza, Egypt

Email

ahmed_passve@yahoo.com

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-

Orcid

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Volume

13

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

812

Issue Date

2019-12-01

Receive Date

2021-04-14

Publish Date

2019-12-01

Page Start

57

Page End

72

Print ISSN

1687-4633

Online ISSN

2090-3790

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https://ajesa.journals.ekb.eg/article_164157.html

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https://ajesa.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=164157

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Original research articles

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28

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Acarines: Journal of the Egyptian Society of Acarology

Publication Link

https://ajesa.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Diversity and Abundance of Spider and Other Soil Animals as Influenced by Fertilization and Their Effect on Yield of Onion at Fayoum Governorate, Egypt

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Created At

22 Jan 2023