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Environtropica Volume 16

28/10/2020

Olaniyi, O.E.1, Adegbola, O.O.1 and Adefurin, O.M.2 1 Department of Ecotourism and Wildlife Management, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria. 2 Tennessee State University, 330 10th Avenue North, Nashville, TN 37203, United States of America. Corresponding author: [email protected] Ac...

28/07/2020

STASAT Volume 3 has been published!
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Strategies and Tactics of Sustainable Agriculture in the Tropics, Volume 3 is a publication jointly edited by Prof. M. Adetola Badejo and Prof. A. O. Togun.

17/07/2020

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Aquaculture is the fastest growing food industry in the world. It can be practiced on a small, medium or large scale. The proliferation of fish ponds and the indiscriminate discharge of waste water from aquaculture into the environment without adequate treatment are of a great environmental and publ...

02/02/2019

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29/08/2018

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24/05/2018

This study investigated the effect of land use and seasonal variation on the species richness, diversity and abundance of anthophilous insects sampled on three land use types grasslands, agricultural lands and secondary forests on Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife for 12 months covering the dry and wet seasons.

Insect diversity loss in terrestrial ecosystems is driven by land use intensification, habitat loss and other anthropogenic activities and environmental stressors. Availability of critical resources such as nectar and pollen-providing plants are crucial to the success of many anthophilous insect tax...

04/08/2017

Post Ebola Disease Scourge: Impacts on Perception and Influx Rate of Tourists into the University of Ibadan Zoological Garden, Nigeria
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This work aimed at highlighting the impacts of post Ebola disease scourge on the perception and influx rate of tourists into the University of Ibadan zoological garden. The study used an interviewed-administered questionnaire. Two types of questionnaire (type I and type II) were used. Data were a**lyzed and presented in percentages as well as Pearson moment correlation coefficient and descriptive statistics. Results showed that tourists who responded to the questions were Nigerians (119.0; 92.2%) while majority of the tourists had tertiary education (90.0; 69.7%). It was shown that not touching animals in their enclosure is significant .050 * (P

This work aimed at highlighting the impacts of post Ebola disease scourge on the perception and influx rate of tourists into the University of Ibadan zoological garden. The study used an interviewed-administered questionnaire. Two types of questionnaire (type I and type II) were used. Data were a**l...

21/07/2017

Seasonal variation in the diversity of anthophilous insects in three land use types on Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Southwestern Nigeria
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Insect diversity loss in terrestrial ecosystems is driven by land use intensification, habitat loss and other anthropogenic activities and environmental stressors. Availability of critical resources such as nectar and pollen-providing plants are crucial to the success of many anthophilous insect taxa. This could result in differences in the abundance, species richness and species diversity of anthophilous insects between seasons and across different land use types. This study investigated the effect of land use and seasonal variation on the species richness, diversity and abundance of anthophilous insects sampled on three land use types grasslands, agricultural lands and secondary forests on Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife for 12 months covering the dry and wet seasons. Higher abundance was recorded in secondary forest and grassland land use types compared to agricultural land. There was no significant difference in the species richness and diversity of anthophilous insects among the land use types. The effect of seasonal variation was more pronounced on grassland and agricultural land compared to secondary forest. Flowering plant abundance and species richness positively influenced the abundance, species richness and diversity of anthophilous insects. This supports the notion that land use change and seasonal variations influences the availability of flowering plants which directly affects the abundance, species richness and diversity of anthophilous insects.

Insect diversity loss in terrestrial ecosystems is driven by land use intensification, habitat loss and other anthropogenic activities and environmental stressors. Availability of critical resources such as nectar and pollen-providing plants are crucial to the success of many anthophilous insect tax...