Ground Dwelling Insect Community in Limestone Mining Rehabilitation Area, Saraburi Province

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Anekphong Seekhiew
Wattanachai Tasen
Sakhan Teejuntuk

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The species diversity of ground dwelling insect community was carried out in a limestone mining rehabilitation area, in Saraburi province.The study sites were classified into five types and included dry evergreen forest, mixed deciduous forest, reforestation carried out for more than 10 years, reforestation less than 10 years, and limestone mining area. Pitfall-traps and Winkler extractors were used to collect ground dwelling insects, during May 2015 to April 2016. The findings revealed that the total number of ground dwelling insects could be classified 191 species, belonging to 48 families and 9 orders. The highest number of insect species were Coleoptera (74 species), followed by Hymenoptera, and Hemiptera (57 and 25 species, respectively). The dry evergreen forest had the highest number of species diversity index compared to the area under reforestation for more than 10 years, mixed deciduous forest, reforestation less than 10 years, and limestone mining area (2.97, 2.80, 2.75, 2.55, and 1.75, respectively). As for the similarity index, it was found that the dry evergreen forest area was the most similar to area under more than 10 years of reforestation and mixed deciduous forest (72% and 70%, respectively), but the dry evergreen forest area was the least similar to the limestone mining area at only around 43%. This shows that the rehabilitation influenced the recovery of the insect community.

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Seekhiew, A., Tasen, W., & Teejuntuk, S. (2020). Ground Dwelling Insect Community in Limestone Mining Rehabilitation Area, Saraburi Province. Thai Journal of Forestry, 39(1), 1–10. Retrieved from https://li01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/tjf/article/view/245955
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