Thesis Title: “Diversity and Abundance of termite species in hamirpur and chitrakoot district of bundelkhand region of uttar pradesh”
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2022-09-08
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Banda University of Agriculture & Technology, Banda-210001, Uttar Pradesh, India
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To observe the diversity and abundance of termites a field experiment was conducted
at Hamirpur and Chitrakoot in Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh during 2021-22. Two
transects of 100m x100m were laid out in each village in cultivated and uncultivated area,
transect was divided into 20 sections of 5m x 2m from which termite samples were
collected using the ‗X‘ pattern along with the soil samples. Total six termite species namely
Odontotermes obesus, O.gurdaspurensis. O. brunneus, O. redemanni, O. globicola, and
Microtermes mycophagus were identified in 110 samples from Hamirpur and Chitrakoot
district. The Average number of termite varied from 15 to 52 both cultivated and
uncultivated land of Hamirpur during time period of 0-15 to 0-90 minutes. However, the
average no. of termites was 14 to 57 at cultivated and uncultivated land of Chitrakoot district
during the same time period. All the identified termites belong to the single sub-family
Macrotermitinae of the family Termitidae. The highest and the lowest termite abundance
encountered was 4 and 1, respectively and the number of termite abundance in uncultivated
land was higher in comparison to cultivated land. The abundance of termite in cultivated and
uncultivated land of Hamirpur and uncultivated land of Chitrakoot had significant
correlation with the organic carbon and organic matter. whereas it has non-significant
negative correlation with the cultivated land of Chitrakoot. Shannon index expressed that O.
obesus was the most dominant species in the cultivated and uncultivated land of Chitrakoot
and in cultivated land of Hamirpur. In uncultivated land of Hamirpur O. gurdaspurensis was
dominant.
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Mr. Aakash Srivastava. 2022. Thesis Title: “Diversity and Abundance of termite species in hamirpur and chitrakoot district of bundelkhand region of uttar pradesh” . Thesis, M.Sc.