Abstract
Insects play a vital role for proper functioning of forest ecosystem, including positive roles as pollinators, seed dispersers, genetic linkers and detrimental effects by feeding on and/or killing trees. The present study was conducted to find insect association with plants in rural areas of Dhirkot. The study was conducted from March, 2019 to September, 2019. The sampling was carried out by line transect method. Thirty transects were taken for sampling insects. Sixty-five species of insects in association with 150 plants were recorded.
Highlights
INTRODUCTIONThe forest ecosystem is facing a number of challenges such as anthropogenic pressures (wood-cutting, urbanization and land-use change), climatic changes, environmental issues, invasive pest and forest management that disturb forest health and/or structure and affect primary productivity (FAO, 2005)
The forest ecosystem is facing a number of challenges such as anthropogenic pressures, climatic changes, environmental issues, invasive pest and forest management that disturb forest health and/or structure and affect primary productivity (FAO, 2005)
Insects play a vital role for proper functioning of forest ecosystem, including positive roles as pollinators, seed dispersers, genetic linkers and detrimental effects by feeding on and/or killing trees
Summary
The forest ecosystem is facing a number of challenges such as anthropogenic pressures (wood-cutting, urbanization and land-use change), climatic changes, environmental issues, invasive pest and forest management that disturb forest health and/or structure and affect primary productivity (FAO, 2005). The vegetation of an area provides an ecosystem to insects and factors that affect diversity and density of vegetation, affect the population of insects. Parker et al (2006) reviewed the interaction between forest fires and insect populations and concluded that environments where fires have been curbed, tend to have a greater insect activity. Previous studies on class insecta from Azad Jammu and Kashmir include studies on butterflies (Faiz et al, 2015), on insect biodiversity in District Rawalakot, AJK (Faiz et al, 2018), on moths (Faiz et al, 2019) but the present study is designed to find association of insects with plants. The present study provides baseline data about insect association with plants in rural areas of Dhirkot, AJK
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