Impacts of agricultural mechanization on avian diversity in Ludhiana district

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dc.contributor.advisorKler, Tejdeep Kaur
dc.contributor.authorHarnoor Kaur
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-05T10:32:13Z
dc.date.available2024-01-05T10:32:13Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThe present investigation was carried out to study the impacts of agricultural mechanization on avian diversity at nine selected rice-wheat fields from three locations, Sarabha (Location I), Pakhowal (Location II) and Dangon (Location III) from April 2020 to March 2021. A total of 50 avian species were recorded from the selected fields during the study period. Rock Pigeon (8.63%), Cattle Egret (8.55%), House Crow (8.50%), Common Myna (7.61%), Eurasian Collared Dove (7.17%) and Red-wattled Lapwing (6.46%) were the most abundant species found. During the Kharif season, a total of 48 bird species of 46 genera were recorded while 49 bird species belonging to 45 genera during the Rabi season. The mechanical operations like ploughing, harvesting and other post harvesting operations with disc plough harrow, plougher, combine harvester and straw baller have shown much higher avian species richness and diversity irrespective of the field type. Higher values of species richness and diversity were recorded from the organically cultivated fields and fields with agronomic practices recommended by PAU as compared to fields with conventional cultivation practices. Increase in species richness and diversity was observed during the harvesting and post-harvesting operations due to use of combine harvesters, thresher, straw baller, disc plough harrow and land leveller. As evident from the present study cultivating crops both organically and by following PAU recommended agronomic practices might help in sustaining higher avian species richness and diversity.en_US
dc.identifier.citationHarnoor Kaur (2021). Impacts of agricultural mechanization on avian diversity in Ludhiana district (Unpublished M.Sc. thesis). Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India.
dc.identifier.urihttps://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810205796
dc.keywordsAvian fauna, Rice, Wheat, Mechanization, Organic farmingen_US
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.pages158en_US
dc.publisherPunjab Agricultural University, Ludhianaen_US
dc.research.problemImpacts of agricultural mechanization on avian diversity in Ludhiana districten_US
dc.subZoologyen_US
dc.themeImpacts of agricultural mechanization on avian diversity in Ludhiana districten_US
dc.these.typeM.Scen_US
dc.titleImpacts of agricultural mechanization on avian diversity in Ludhiana districten_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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