Abstract
This study aims to identify and reveal the soil fauna community which includes individual counts, diversity and dominance as well as the quality of the soil environment in the former landfills Gunung Tugel land, Kedung Randu Village, Patikraja District, Banyumas Regency. The method used is purposive random sampling. Sampling was carried out for six months, during January-June 2021, six times with an interval of one month, at day (06.00 - 08.00) and night (18.00-20.00). Soil sampling and soil quality measurements were carried out at two research locations, location I in the northern and eastern areas of the ex-landfills Gunung Tugel area and location II in the western and southern areas of the ex- landfills Gunung Tugel area. The results of the sampling were identified using a microscope and referred to the book An Introduction to the Study of Insects and the book Ecology of Soil Animals. The results showed that 394 individuals of soil mesofauna were counted which belonged to 12 orders, 15 families and 17 species. The diversity index is classified as moderate, in the range of 0.970 - 1.097 with an average of 1.045. The dominance index is relatively low, ranging from 0.335 to 0.423 with an average of 0.367 and shows that no species dominates. The quality of the soil environment of the former Gunung Tugel landfills is classified as not yet feasible to support the life of the soil mesofauna.
Highlights
Efforts to meet increasing human needs have created a threat of environmental damage
The soil fauna community is composed of a population of soil fauna consisting of various individual types of soil fauna
The number of individual types of soil fauna in the community will indicate the diversity of soil fauna
Summary
Efforts to meet increasing human needs have created a threat of environmental damage. The organic matter resulting from this decomposition can support productivity and maintain soil fertility (Meitiyani and Dharma, 2018) The former Gunung Tugel landfill is located in Kedung Randu Village, Patikraja District, Banyumas Regency. This study aims to identify and reveal: Soil mesofauna community structure in the former Gunung Tugel landfill site, knowing and revealing the relationship between environmental factors on individual count diversity of soil fauna dominance in the former Gunung Tugel landfill. RESEARCH AND METHOD This research was conducted in the former TPA Gunung Tugel, Kedung Randu Village, Patikraja District, Banyumas Regency This land has an area of about 5 hectares. The process of identifying the collected soil mesofauna and macrofauna samples was carried out by referring to the book An Introduction to the Study of Insect Borror et al (1992) and other references related to soil fauna identification. The process of quantification of samples of soil mesofauna and macrofauna that have been identified to calculate the number of individual counts at each level of same family taxon
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