Abstract
Insects are the main group of soil arthropod and the most dominant animals in the terrestrial ecosystems. The aims of this study were to get information about soil arthropod diversity in relation to environmental influence at teak plantations at Cepu, Central Java. The sampling plot design was based on forest health monitoring design method. Pitfall trap and Berlese-Tullgren funnel were employed to collect the soil arthropods. The trapped specimens were sorted in the laboratory and then identified up to family or genus. The result of the study revealed that young-age plantation has higher abundance and diversity of arthropod than old-age plantation. Totally we found 3 classes, 11 orders, 29 families, and 714 individuals from young teak plantation, and 3 classes, 11 orders, 25 families, and 397 individuals from the old one. The dominant class was insect and the dominant order of the insects was Hymenoptera. The thickness of the teak litter was the most important factor to the abundance of soil arthropods (R2 = 0.891).
Highlights
The great number of species interacted with complexity of food chain are the reason for stable ecosystem because food chain is a complex balance of life
The issues of forest destruction, forest fragmentation, biological conservation, and sustainable management of tropical forest have attracted the attention of biologists all over the world
A thorough understanding of landscape quality is essential for monitoring forest environmental changes, and that its impact towards animals, expecially soil arthropods are urgently needed
Summary
The great number of species interacted with complexity of food chain are the reason for stable ecosystem because food chain is a complex balance of life. In recent years, human activities, like forest logging, conversion of natural forests to a plantations forest, and other disturbance to the forest have caused instability of the ecosystem. The issues of forest destruction, forest fragmentation, biological conservation, and sustainable management of tropical forest have attracted the attention of biologists all over the world. The great number of species and the value to the biosphere are reason for their fascination to biologists. Forest disturbances cannot be avoided as development requires a certain amount of land clearance. The critical fauna's habitat such as lowland forest in the tropic is raidly diminishing in the developing country. A thorough understanding of landscape quality is essential for monitoring forest environmental changes, and that its impact towards animals, expecially soil arthropods are urgently needed
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