Invasion by Exotic Earthworms Alters Biodiversity and Communities of Litter- and Soil-dwelling Oribatid Mites [PDF]
Diversity, 2011 Exotic earthworms are drivers of biotic communities in invaded North American forest stands. Here we used ecologically important oribatid mite (Arachnida: Acari) communities, as model organisms to study the responses of litter- and soil-dwelling ...
Jordan L Burke +2 more
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Claw shape variation in oribatid mites of the genera Carabodes and Caleremaeus: exploring the interplay of habitat, ecology and phylogenetics [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Background Claws are a commonly observed biological adaptation across a wide range of animal groups. They serve different functions and their link to evolution is challenging to analyze.
Michaela Kerschbaumer +2 more
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Mitochondrial analysis of oribatid mites provides insights into their atypical tRNA annotation, genome rearrangement and evolution [PDF]
Parasites & Vectors, 2021 Background The mitochondrial (mt) genomes of Sarcoptiformes mites typically contain 37 genes. Although the loss of genes is rare in Sarcoptiformes mite mitogenomes, two of the six previously reported oribatid mites (Acariforms: Sarcoptiformes) are ...
Xue-Bing Zhan +15 more
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Multiple factors influence claw characteristics in oribatid mites (Acari) [PDF]
Scientific ReportsClaws, as nature's multifaceted instruments, play fundamental roles across the animal kingdom, aiding in prey capture and enabling movement across diverse terrains.
Michaela Kerschbaumer, Tobias Pfingstl
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Older Lineages of Oribatid Mites in Mountain Ranges Have Broader Geographic Ranges and Exhibit More Generalistic Traits [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionUnderstanding ecological and evolutionary mechanisms that drive biodiversity patterns is important for comprehending biodiversity. Despite being critically important to the functioning of ecosystems, the mechanisms driving belowground biodiversity are ...
Xue Pan +11 more
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Niche dimensions in soil oribatid mite community assembly under native and introduced tree species [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionForest soils are a critical component of terrestrial ecosystems and host a large number of animal decomposer species. One diverse and abundant decomposer taxon is oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida), whose species composition varies with forest type and ...
Johanna Elisabeth Noske +5 more
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Persian Journal of Acarology, 2023 Oribatid mite communities were investigated at six sites of Machakhela National Park (West part of Georgia) in two representative habitat types: Alder (Alnus barbata) forest and mixed forest with chestnut (Castanea Sativa), beech (Fagus orientalis) and ...
Tea Arabuli +2 more
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“Jack‐of‐all‐trades” is parthenogenetic
Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Sex is evolutionarily more costly than parthenogenesis, evolutionary ecologists therefore wonder why sex is much more frequent than parthenogenesis in the majority of animal lineages. Intriguingly, parthenogenetic individuals and species are as common as
Mark Maraun +8 more
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Factors Affecting the Vertical Distribution of Oribatid Mites (Acari: Oribatida) in Ismailia Governorate, Egypt [PDF]
Acarines: Journal of the Egyptian Society of Acarology, 2013 The vertical distribution of soil oribatid mites and its dependence on ecological parameters such as soil temperature, moisture, pH and organic matter content were studied in an age sequence of 22-year-old Mangifera indica L ...
H. El-Sharabasy
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Environmental Research Communications, 2023 The karst world natural heritage site is characterized by fragility due to severe rocky desertification. Buffer zone functions as the ecological barrier of the core area of the heritage site, and can play an ecological filtering role in the core area ...
Tong Gong, Xiumei Yin, Hu Chen
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