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Effect of habitat disturbances on the collembolan populations of a cassava plantation in Ile-Ife, Nigeria

Soil and litter-inhabiting collembolan populations were monitored in a secondary regrowth forest and the adjoining plot that was manually cleared, burned and cultivated with cassava for a period of 12 months, These habitat disturbances were deleterious to all soil-inhabiting Collembola but most litter-inhabiting collembolan genera adapted to the new conditions in the disturbed plot. Songhaica sp, increased significantly in numbers while Ceratrimeria sp. decreased significantly in numbers.

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