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Contribution to the ectoparasite fauna of rare and poor studied bat species of Southern Siberia [PDF]
Forty-six chiropteran specimens from seven species have been captured on the territory of Southern Siberia. From them, 676 ectoparasites of 16 species (gamasid mites and insects) were collected.
Bogdanov, I. I. +4 more
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Distribution pattern and driving factors of mite communities in karst cave ecosystems. [PDF]
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 +6 more
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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 +3 more
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Amino acid nitrogen and carbon isotope data: Potential and implications for ecological studies
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 +4 more
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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 +25 more
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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 +6 more
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Size compartmentalization of energy channeling in terrestrial belowground food webs
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 +14 more
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Condition-dependent acoustic signals that potentially reveal information about the signaler’s physical or physiological condition are common and important in the animal kingdom.
Baozhu Fan +6 more
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Domestic ventilation rates, indoor humidity and dust mite allergens : are our homes causing the asthma pandemic? [PDF]
This paper is concerned with historical changes in domestic ventilation rates, relative humidity and the associated risk of house dust mite colonization.
McSharry, C +5 more
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Mites in seaweeds from two distant sites of the Dagestan State Nature Reserve, namely from the Kizlyar Bay and Samoor Forest, were studied. Total of 31 species of mesostigmatic mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) and 31 species of oribatid mites (Acari ...
Olga Makarova, Sergey G. Ermilov
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