Authors : A. K. Jha, D. P. Jamwal and R. J. Andrew
Page Nos : 350-369
Description :
The present investigation contain the results of an ecological study involving the impact of contaminated sewage effluents on various soil factors and on soil inhabiting arthropod from both polluted [Pangadi Nallah, Gondia] and non- polluted site [Bodalkasa, Tiroda] in Gondia District of Maharashtra. The soil samples were collected monthly over a period of one year from May, 2011 to April 2012 from each site. There was significant variation in the following soil factors temperature, moisture, hydrogen-ion-concentration and organic carbon of the two sites. Several groups of soil arthropods were recorded from soil samples, of which only Acarina, Collembola, Diptera, Coleoptera and Hymenoptera were universally present though their density and mode of population varied in different sites. The percentage of total population was found to be maximum in the non polluted plot.
