Published in Scientific Papers. Series A. Agronomy, Vol. LXVI, Issue 1
Written by Maria IAMANDEI, Raluca Gabriela GEORGESCU, Ionuț Cristian POPA, Mădălina RĂDULEA, Andrei CHIRILOAIE-PALADE, George COTEŢ, Ștefan NANU
The paper aimed to evaluate the influence of three different pest control options (chemical, biological and a combination of them) on epigeic fauna diversity in the conditions of sandy soils from southern Romania in two succesive years (2021-2022), through the analysis of biological material resulting from the collection of samples in pitfall traps and direct observations at the foliage level. The arthropod fauna was represented by 69 species belonging to a number of 26 families and 13 taxonomic orders: Acarina, Araneae, Collembolla and the insect orders Coleoptera, Dermaptera, Diptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Mantodea, Neuroptera, Orthoptera and Thysanoptera. The composition of the fauna spectrum were dominated by Collembolla species in 2021 and Coleoptera species in 2022. The highest richness of species and values of Shannon-Wiener and Simpson diversity index were found in treatments with biological control either alone or in combination.
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