Abstract :
Grassland, juniper forest, afforestation land, medicinal and aromatic plant garden, cheery and apple orchards were chosen for comparison of insect bio-diversity in Atabey, Isparta province. Similarity, bio-diversity, dominancy and evenness were measured by pitfall trap used for insect sampling. Results of Shannon-Wiener, Simpson and Margalef’s diversity and species richness indexes showed that the highest diverse habitat was afforestation habitat with 2.382 and 0.8735, respectively. The most dominant habitat was found as grassland with 0.8004. Results of Shannon and Simpson Evenness showed while afforestation land had the highest evenness with 0.7951 and 0.3953, grassland had the lowest evenness with 0.2253 and 0.0961. The highest species richness was found in cherry agro-ecosystem with 25 different insect species. According to cluster analyze’ result, cherry and apple orchards were found the most similar habitats with 58.68%. The juniper forest was calculated as 9.98% similar with all the other habitats. Result of the study provided that natural, semi-natural and agro-ecosystems have their own bio-diversity and characteristic insect species assemblages and besides evenness of the insect species in agro-ecosystems and/or unnatural habitats could be found lowest than natural habitats.
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Species richness , diversity , dominancy , evenness , pitfall trap.
