Diversity of invertebrates living on greenhouse tomato crops on the azzefoun region (Tizi-Ouzou, Algeria) Chougar Safia1, Medjdoub-Bensaad Ferroudja1,* 1Laboratoire de production, sauvegarde des especes menacees et des recoltes. Influence des variations climatiques. Departement de Biologie. Faculte des Sciences Biologiques et des Sciences Agronomiques. Universite Mouloud Mammeri de Tizi-Ouzou. 15000Algerie *Corresponding Author: Ferroudja Medjdoub-Bensaad, Laboratoire de production, sauvegarde des especes menacees et des recoltes. Influence des variations climatiques. Departement de Biologie. Faculte des Sciences Biologiques et des Sciences Agronomiques. Universite Mouloud Mammeri de Tizi-Ouzou. 15000Algerie e-mail: medidoubferroudia@yahoo.fr
Online published on 6 July, 2022. Abstract Cultivated environments provide a habitat as well as various food resources for a large number of species of invertebrates, which can be phytophagous, predators and parasites, which act as natural enemies of agricultural pests, thus constituting means of biological control in agrosystems. An inventory of invertebrates, in particular arthropods, was made during the greenhouse tomato cultivation season of the Dawson variety in the region of Azeffoun, on the coast of Kabylia. The use of the sweep net, Barber pots and aerial or colored traps allowed us to capture 76 species divided into 46 families, belonging to 16 orders and 06 classes of invertebrates. Values of the Shannon diversity index are quite high, they vary from H]= 2.68 bits to H]= 4.84 bits. The equitability obtained for each type of trap varies from E=0.53 to E = 0.87. These values tend towards 1, which reflects a balance between the species living in the tomato crop. Top Keywords Inventory, Invertebrates, Diversity, Tomato, Dawson variety, Azeffoun. Top |