Revealing microhabitat requirements of an endangered specialist lizard with LiDAR [PDF]
A central principle of threatened species management is the requirement for detailed understanding of species habitat requirements. Difficult terrain or cryptic behaviour can, however, make the study of habitat or microhabitat requirements difficult ...
Bamford, M.J. +5 more
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The ephemeral resource patch concept [PDF]
Ephemeral resource patches (ERPs) – short lived resources including dung, carrion, temporary pools, rotting vegetation, decaying wood, and fungi – are found throughout every ecosystem.
Barton, Philip +2 more
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Lack of specialist nidicoles as a characteristic of mite assemblages inhabiting nests of the ground-nesting wood warbler, Phylloscopus sibilatrix (Aves: Passeriformes) [PDF]
Bird and mammal nests provide microhabitats that support a range of other species, including invertebrates. However, the variation between communities of nest-dwelling invertebrates in different nests is poorly understood. The major aim of this study was
Bloszyk, Jerzy +6 more
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Mite communities (Acari: Mesostigmata, Oribatida) in the red belt conk, Fomitopsis pinicola (Polyporales), in Polish forests [PDF]
The fruiting bodies of bracket fungi are a specific microhabitat colonized by various invertebrates of which mites (Acari) are rarely studied, and if they are, the study is usually faunistic.
Gdula, Anna K. +3 more
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Leiodinychus orbicularis (C.L. Koch, 1839) in bat boxes in Poland [PDF]
The presented studies are the first one on the occurrence of mites in bat boxes and focuses on Uropodina (Acari: Mesostigmata). Investigation was carried out in Western Poland in October 2015.
Błoszyk, Jerzy +5 more
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Soil mites (Acari) of natural areas of a former military training field in Olsztyn (Poland) [PDF]
Due to restricted public access to military training fields such areas are quite interesting places for conducting faunistic research that would be simply impossible in other terrains.
Błoszyk, Jerzy +3 more
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The topology and drivers of ant-symbiont networks across Europe [PDF]
Intimate associations between different species drive community composition across ecosystems. Understanding the ecological and evolutionary drivers of these symbiotic associations is challenging because their structure eventually determines stability ...
Bonte, Dries +2 more
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Sejus sejiformis (Balogh, 1938) atkafaj első előkerülése hazánkból (Acari: Mesostigmata: Sejidae) [PDF]
Leányfalun gesztenyefa törzsén létrejött, természetes faápolás alkalmával üreg tisztítson átesett odúban levő szerves anyagból egy hazánkból eddig ki nem mutatott atkafaj került elő.
Kontschán, Jenő, Víg, Bence
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The world of mites, being exceptionally diverse and rich, may be analysed both in historical and geographical terms. It is commonly known that these tiny, ubiquitous invertebrates are found both in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems; additionally, they ...
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ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS IMPACT AND INCIDENCE OF PARASITISMOF PSYLLAEPHAGUS BLITEUSRIEK (HYMENOPTERA ENCYRTIDAE)ON POPULATIONS OF GLYCASPIS BRIMBLECOMBEIMOORE(HEMIPTERA APHALARIDAE) IN MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATIC AREAS [PDF]
The red gum lerp psyllid, Glycaspis brimblecombeiMoore (Hemiptera, Aphalaridae), is an Australian native sap-sucking insect pest of eucalypts that has been first reported for the West Palaearctic Region in 2008 and, in 2010, it hasbeen found also in ...
BELLA, SALVATORE +10 more
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