Kingsley Mohammed; Olagunju Achebe
Abstract
There is a critical demand for food need in the next fifty years is a massive challenge for the consistency of food production for global and local circumstances. Recent farming technologies might be improving fertility while they might be menacing farming ecosystems. This study presents the soil mesofauna ...
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There is a critical demand for food need in the next fifty years is a massive challenge for the consistency of food production for global and local circumstances. Recent farming technologies might be improving fertility while they might be menacing farming ecosystems. This study presents the soil mesofauna importance and managing techniques to improve soil health. An adjusted tullegren funnel has accomplished the soil mesofauna extraction and analysis of edaphic elements like soil temperature, soil moisture, organic carbon, available nitrogen, and phosphate has been accomplished by standard lab techniques. The outcome demonstrated that soil mesofaunal communities are affected with some chosen elements by managing techniques like cropping, tilling, etc. that eventually help in keeping the health of the soil.
Kingsley Mohammed; Olagunju Achebe
Abstract
Spider webs were gathered from residential and industrial areas to found the order of heavy suspended metals in the air. The treatment of spider webs were done with nitric acid and digested by atomic absorption spectrophotometer before analysis (AAS). The average value of several heavy metals concentration ...
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Spider webs were gathered from residential and industrial areas to found the order of heavy suspended metals in the air. The treatment of spider webs were done with nitric acid and digested by atomic absorption spectrophotometer before analysis (AAS). The average value of several heavy metals concentration were observed to be meaningfully great at p < 0.05 in suspended ingredients in industrial zones including, Cadmium (Cd) 0.15 ± 0.05 and Lead (Pb) 0.53 ± 0.09 µgg-1, respectively. The average values of concentration of Copper (Cu), Nickel (Ni) and Zinc (Zn) were not meaningfully changed from residential, industrial and control zones. It was observed that, the heavy metals concentration reduces when the web specimens were collected more away from the road.