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Diversity Patterns and Ecological Network Features of Soil Mite Trophic Groups in Karst Cave Ecosystems. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Along karst cave gradients, soil mites show rising α‐diversity yet declining functional diversity toward cave entrances. Predatory mites sustain ecological network stability as keystone taxa despite simplified communities in oligotrophic zones. This reveals biodiversity maintenance mechanisms in extreme subterranean ecosystems.
Shen Y, Wei Q, Zhou Y, Song T, Liu Y, Lyu X, Xiao H, Chen H.   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Distribution pattern and driving factors of mite communities in karst cave ecosystems. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Mites are abundant invertebrates in underground ecosystems, influenced by resource and environmental diversity, but the diversity of cave mites remains unclear. Through a survey of soil mites in three typical areas of light intensity in caves and their adjacent environments outside the caves, we found that although there are significant differences in ...
Fei Y, Shi Z, Zhou Y, Wei Q, Liu Y, Shen Y, Chen H.   +6 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Distribution and Infestation of Gamasid Mite Androlaelaps fahrenholzi ( Haemolaelaps glasgowi ) on Small Mammals Across Five Provincial Regions of Southwest China [PDF]

Veterinary Medicine and Science
Zhu XJ, Li YN, Guo XG, Ren TG.
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Faunal and Ecological Analysis of Gamasid Mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) Associated with Small Mammals in Yunnan Province, Southwest China [PDF]

Insects
Xian-Guo Guo, Pei-Ying Peng, Pengwu Yin   +2 more
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Latitudinal gradients in body size and sexual size dimorphism in fleas: males drive Bergmann's pattern

Integrative Zoology, Volume 18, Issue 3, Page 414-426, May 2023., 2023
Male but not female fleas demonstrated latitudinal gradient in body size. Appendage length was not associated with latitude. The degree of sexual size dimorphism decreased with a decrease in latitude. Abstract We tested for the effects of latitude and geographic range size (GRS) on body size, leg length, and sexual size dimorphism (SSD) across 103 ...
Boris R. KRASNOV, Elena N. SURKOVA, Georgy I. SHENBROT, Irina S. KHOKHLOVA   +3 more
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Amino acid nitrogen and carbon isotope data: Potential and implications for ecological studies

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 12, Issue 6, June 2022., 2022
Stable isotope analysis of individual amino acids (AAs) in natural abundance is now emerging as a promising and complementary method to characterize the flow and transformation of resources across a diversity of organisms, from microbial domains to macroscopic consumers. Many empirical ecologists are still unfamiliar with the scope of applicability and
Hee Young Yun, Thomas Larsen, Bohyung Choi, Eun‐Ji Won, Kyung‐Hoon Shin   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Feeding habits and multifunctional classification of soil‐associated consumers from protists to vertebrates

Biological Reviews, Volume 97, Issue 3, Page 1057-1117, June 2022., 2022
ABSTRACT Soil organisms drive major ecosystem functions by mineralising carbon and releasing nutrients during decomposition processes, which supports plant growth, aboveground biodiversity and, ultimately, human nutrition. Soil ecologists often operate with functional groups to infer the effects of individual taxa on ecosystem functions and services ...
Anton M. Potapov, Frédéric Beaulieu, Klaus Birkhofer, Sarah L. Bluhm, Maxim I. Degtyarev, Miloslav Devetter, Anton A. Goncharov, Konstantin B. Gongalsky, Bernhard Klarner, Daniil I. Korobushkin, Dana F. Liebke, Mark Maraun, Rory J. Mc Donnell, Melanie M. Pollierer, Ina Schaefer, Julia Shrubovych, Irina I. Semenyuk, Alberto Sendra, Jiri Tuma, Michala Tůmová, Anna B. Vassilieva, Ting‐Wen Chen, Stefan Geisen, Olaf Schmidt, Alexei V. Tiunov, Stefan Scheu   +25 more
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Conversion of rainforest into oil palm and rubber plantations affects the functional composition of litter and soil Collembola

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 11, Issue 15, Page 10686-10708, August 2021., 2021
Conversion of rainforests into plantation systems altered the composition of Collembola communities with potential consequences for decomposition processes and other ecosystem services they provide. The community composition of Collembola differed to a similar extent between rainforest, jungle rubber, and monoculture plantations suggesting that ...
Winda Ika Susanti, Tamara Bartels, Valentyna Krashevska, Rahayu Widyastuti, Louis Deharveng, Stefan Scheu, Anton Potapov   +6 more
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Size compartmentalization of energy channeling in terrestrial belowground food webs

Ecology, Volume 102, Issue 8, August 2021., 2021
Abstract Size‐structured food webs form integrated trophic systems where energy is channeled from small to large consumers. Empirical evidence suggests that size structure prevails in aquatic ecosystems, whereas in terrestrial food webs trophic position is largely independent of body size.
Anton M. Potapov, Oksana L. Rozanova, Eugenia E. Semenina, Vladislav D. Leonov, Olga I. Belyakova, Varvara Yu. Bogatyreva, Maxim I. Degtyarev, Anton S. Esaulov, Anastasiya Yu. Korotkevich, Alexey A. Kudrin, Elena A. Malysheva, Yuri A. Mazei, Sergey M. Tsurikov, Andrey G. Zuev, Alexei V. Tiunov   +14 more
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NEW DATA ON TWO GAMASID MITES (ACARI: MESOSTIGMATA) FROM RUSSIA [PDF]

Acarina, 2021
We present the first record of Longoseius (Longoseius) longus (Mesostigmata: Digamasellidae) from Russia. It was collected on a longhorn beetle Stictoleptura variicornis (Dalman) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). In addition, a detailed redescription of the female Leioseius mirabilis Nikolsky, 1981 (Mesostigmata: Ascidae) is provided.
Omid Joharchi, Irina I. Marchenko, Richard W. Hofstetter, Vladimir V. Abramov   +3 more
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