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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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Abundance and Diversity of Soil Mites (Acari: Gamasida & Oribatida) in Mango Orchards in Ismailia Region, Egypt [PDF]
Acarines: Journal of the Egyptian Society of Acarology, 2021 The relative abundance of gamasid and oribatid mites inhabiting soil and litter in mango orchards was investigated in Ismailia region, Egypt. Soil and litter samples were collected from August 2008 to July 2009.
H. El-Sharabasy
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Karst Ecosystems of Middle Timan, Russia: Soils, Plant Communities, and Soil Oribatid Mites
Diversity, 2022 Oribatid mites are distinguished by high taxonomic diversity and abundance in almost all natural zones; they are used as an indicator group of microarthropods in the study of natural landscapes and anthropogenically disturbed ecosystems.
Elena N. Melekhina +2 more
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Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, 2019 The species composition and distribution of oribatid mites in altitudinal zones of Himachal Pradesh were studied. The present study reports 23 species of oribatid mites belonging to 18 genera and 16 families.
Shelley Acharya, Tridip Kumar Datta
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Soil mite (Acari: Oribatida) communities in the limestone quarry of Saskhori (Gerogia) [PDF]
Caucasiana, 2023 The present publication provides a review of the soil mite (Acari; Oribatida) community’s structure and the connection between changes in environmental factors and oribatid mite diversity in the limestone quarry of Saskhori and its adjacent areas ...
Tea Arabuli, Mariam Gogshelidze
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Permafrost dynamics structure species compositions of oribatid mite (Acari: Oribatida) communities in sub-Arctic palsa mires [PDF]
Polar Research, 2014 Palsa mires are sub-Arctic peatland complexes, vulnerable ecosystems with patches of permafrost. Permafrost thawing in palsa mires occurs throughout Fennoscandia, probably due to local climatic warming. In palsa mires, permafrost thaw alters hydrological
Inkeri Markkula
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Annotated checklist of Georgian oribatid mites—II
Zootaxa, 2023 The checklist of oribatid mites from Georgia is updated using sampling data from more than 230 locations during field works conducted between 2016 and 2022. We report 32 species of oribatid mites, sixteen of them were collected between 2017 and 2019, six were missing in Checklist I, while eleven species are new records for the country.
Murvanidze, Maka +3 more
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Юг России: экология, развитие, 2014 The article presents the results of the study of oribatid mites of coastal ecosystems and of islands of the north-west part of the Caspian Sea: species composition, distribution data and analysis of life forms of oribatid mites.
G. M. Abdurakhmanov +3 more
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