*Crop Protection Division, ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, 753006, Odisha, Email: prasanthigolivi@gmail.com (corresponding author)
**Department of Agricultural Entomology, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bengaluru, 560065
Online published on 24 October, 2019.
This study is on the interaction between soil biological characteristics and weather factors with an field experiment conducted at the UAS, GKVK, Bengaluru. Significant difference in abundance of soil fauna was documented among the treatments, of which the best treatment (20 t farm yard manure/ha) for mesofauna was correlated with weather factors. Maximum and minimum temperature were observed significantly negatively correlated, while soil moisture and relative humidity were positively linked. The contribution of such abiotic factors to the abundance of soil mesofauna (67%), Collembola (70%), Cryptostimata (67%), other acari (65%), total acari (70%), other invertebrates (39%) has been brought out.
Soybean, soil mesofauna, Collembola, Cryptostigmata, Acari, farm yard manure, soil moisture, temperature, humidity
