Diversity of ground arthropod community at organic and chemically intensive tea plantation of Darjeeling terai

Journal of Environmental Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 471-476

  Mukhopadhyay, Ananda ^a   Sherpa, P W ^a   Pradhan, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH BENGAL   (India)

Author keywords

Arthropod community; Faunal diversity; Ground level; Tea plots

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTHROPOD; PITFALL TRAP; PLANTATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEA;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PLANTATION; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL FAUNA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; TAXONOMY; TEA;

DARJEELING; INDIA; WEST BENGAL;

ARTHROPODA; COLEOPTERA;

EID: 0141848494     PISSN: 02548704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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