Different patterns, but no temporal decline in temperate forest soil meso‐ and macrofauna over the last decade [PDF]
Ecology, Volume 106, Issue 11, November 2025.Abstract Global biodiversity loss is threatening ecosystem functioning and human well‐being. Arthropods above the ground have substantially decreased in abundance and diversity during the last 15–20 years. However, changes in belowground biodiversity, particularly in forests, received little attention.
Melanie M. Pollierer +5 more
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Microhabitat Selectivity of Mites (Acari) in a Natural Lowland Beech Forest (Melico-Fagetum) in Wronie Reserve (Poland) [PDF]
InsectsThe European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) is a tree species common throughout Europe, with the eastern boundary of its range extending across Poland. Samples were collected in several microhabitats of beech stands (e.g., leaf litter, rotting wood, moss ...
Radomir Graczyk +4 more
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Diversity Patterns and Ecological Network Features of Soil Mite Trophic Groups in Karst Cave Ecosystems [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 11, November 2025.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.
Yan Shen +7 more
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Fungal Energy Channelling Sustains Soil Animal Communities Across Forest Types and Regions [PDF]
Ecology Letters, Volume 28, Issue 5, May 2025.We developed a novel framework combining stable isotope analysis of essential amino acids and energy fluxes to quantify basal resource contributions and trophic positions of meso‐ and macrofauna detritivores (Collembola, Oribatida, Diplopoda, Isopoda, Lumbricidae) and predators (Mesostigmata, Chilopoda) in 48 forest sites of different management ...
André Junggebauer +5 more
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Drivers of Centipede and Spider Diversity and Biomass Along an Elevation Gradient on Changbai Mountain, China [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 10, October 2025.Changes in density, diversity, and biomass with elevation differ between centipedes and spiders. Compared to centipedes, spiders are more strongly affected by environmental changes. Climatic variables act as the main drivers of centipede and spider density, diversity, and biomass, with local habitat–related factors being of secondary importance ...
Zhuoma Wan +5 more
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Moss‐Accumulated eDNA Is a Promising Source for Terrestrial Biodiversity Surveys Across the Tree of Life and Biomes [PDF]
Molecular Ecology Resources, Volume 26, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT Developments in the environmental DNA (eDNA) field have revolutionised our ability to map biodiversity by providing cost‐effective and non‐invasive means to survey organisms across the tree of life. In the terrestrial realm, a variety of eDNA sources have been employed, but we lack easily accessible and cosmopolitan sources of terrestrial eDNA.
Henry F. N. Lankes +10 more
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Two new species of the subgenus <i>Indoribates</i> (<i>Haplozetes</i>) (Acari, Oribatida, Haplozetidae) from Tajikistan. [PDF]
ZookeysLiu CL, Dalatov A, Saidov A, Chen J.
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The effect of mowing on moss mites (Acari, Oribatida) of Xerothermic reserve Gruczno
Acta Biologica, 2015 The xerothermic plant communities mowing with different frequency and the brushwood of blackthorn overgrowing the not mowing surface of reserve were investigated.
Grzegorz Bukowski, Bogusław Chachaj
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Redescription of Hemileius suramericanus (Acari, Oribatida, Scheloribatidae) with comments about Neotropical congeneric species [PDF]
, 2014 This paper represents the first redescription of Hemileius suramericanus (Hammer, 1958) (Oribatida, Scheloribatidae). Morphological and chaetotactic details are added to original Hammer's description.
Fredes, Natalia +1 more
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European Journal of Entomology, 2016 Prey preferences and feeding-related behaviour of two Central European species of Scydmaeninae, Cephennium majus and Cephennium ruthenum, were studied under laboratory conditions.
Paweł JAŁOSZYŃSKI +1 more
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