Herbicides have negligible effects on ants and springtails in an Australian wheat field

- Greenslade, Penelope, Reid, Ian, Packer, Ian

Title
Herbicides have negligible effects on ants and springtails in an Australian wheat field
Creator
Greenslade, Penelope; Reid, Ian; Packer, Ian
Date
2010
Type
Text; Journal article
Identifier
http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/69919
Identifier
vital:3260
Identifier
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2010.03.009
Identifier
ISSN:0038-0717
Abstract
The effects of herbicides applied to a direct drilled and traditionally tilled wheat field on trap catches of the abundant Collembola and Formicidae were examined. Significantly higher abundances of Collembola and species richness of ants were found on the direct-drilled plots. A significant effect of the herbicides, bromoxynil (C7H3Br2NO) and hoegrass (diclofop-methyl), on the activity of two of the fourteen species of surface-dwelling Collembola was detected but no effect was observed on surface-active Formicidae. Jeannenotia stachi numbers were significantly more reduced on the direct-drilled compared to the traditionally tilled plot after herbicide treatment possibly because of higher predator abundance on the latter. In the short term, herbicides have a minimal effect on most species of surface-active arthropods although Collembola were more adversely affected than Formicidae. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Publisher
Elsevier
Relation
Soil Biology and Biochemistry Vol. 42, no. 7 (2010), p. 1172-1175
Rights
Copyright Elsevier
Rights
This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
Subject
05 Environmental Sciences; 06 Biological Sciences; 03 Chemical Sciences; Brachystomella platensis; Bromoxynil; Collembola; Conservation farming; Conventional tillage; Formicidae; Hemisotoma thermophila; Hoegrass; Jeannenotia stachi
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