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KEY TO THE GROUPS OF PRIMITIVE ORIBATID MITES 1. The legs of the adults have 2 femora; in some or in all immature stages the legs are not monodactyle. Gnathosoma visible from above. Absence of notogaster and latero-abdominal gland.............. Palaeacaroidea - The legs of the adults have i femur, and are monodaetyle in all immature stages.
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Diversity of Peloppiidae (Oribatida) in North America
Members of the oribatid mite family Peloppiidae are found throughout the Holarctic in subarctic and arctic habitats, and temperate and boreal forests, and while common, are rarely collected in high abundance. Pacific Northwest forest habitats of western Canada have high relative diversity of peloppiid mites representing species of the genera ...
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Oribatid mites of Madagascar (Acari: Oribatida)
Around 350 Oribatid mite species are listed from Madagascar, with their synonyms and distribution data. New records are provided for 29 species from which three species are new to the fauna of Madagascar: Acrotritia reticulata (Mahunka, 1988), Malaconothrus (Malaconothrus) cf.
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Significant impact of allochthonous nutrient loads on microarthropods in forest soils
Aim of study: To investigate the impact of allochthonous material from piscivorous birds on forest soil microarthropod communities. Area of study: Six study zones in the Curonian Spit peninsula (western Lithuania) were designated in Pinus sylvestris ...
Audrone Petrauskiene+4 more
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What Are the Phylogenetic Limits to Pollinator Diversity?
ABSTRACT Although huge progress has been made over the past 200 years in identifying the diversity of pollinators of angiosperms and other plants, new discoveries continue to be made each year, especially in tropical areas and in the fossil record. In this perspective article I address the following questions: Just how diverse are the pollinators and ...
Jeff Ollerton
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Checklist of Oribatida from American peatlands In total, we list 156 species recorded for American peatlands (Table 1) including the 49 species recorded from the S1 Bog site, of which only 26 species have been previously recorded for peatlands in the country. Previous work by Belanger (1976) (41 species) and Donaldson (1996) (31 species), the two other
Barreto, Carlos, Lindo, Zoë
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Ptyctimous mites (Acari, Oribatida) of Tanzania
This monograph sums up the state of knowledge of ptyctimous mites fauna of Tanzania on the basis of literature data. Diagnoses of 61 species known from Tanzania (TAN) are given, 15 species have been redescribed on the basis of types and 22 species have been redescribed in earlier papers. One new species: A. ( H.) onkos sp. nov. is described.
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TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE GENUS GEPHYRAZETES (ACARI, ORIBATIDA, MOCHLOZETIDAE)
The oribatid mite genus Gephyrazetes (Oribatida, Mochlozetidae) is recorded for the first time in the Ethiopian region; one new species is described from soil and litter of Korup National Park in Cameroon. Gephyrazetes umukusumae sp. nov. differs from G.
Ermilov, Sergey G., Starý, Josef
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Differences in top-soil features between beech-mixture and Norway spruce forests of the Šumava Mts.
Top-soil samples were taken from four mountain forest ecosystems in the Bohemian Forest to compare the processes in European beech-mixture (Fs) and Norway spruce (Pa) dominating ecosystems.
K. Matějka, J. Starý
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Fine Scale Determinants of Soil Litter Fauna on a Mediterranean Mixed Oak Forest Invaded by the Exotic Soil-Borne Pathogen Phytophthora cinnamomi [PDF]
16 páginas.-- 5 figuras.-- 1 tablas.-- 56 referencias.-- This article belongs to the Special Issue "Ecology and Management of Invasive Species in Forest Ecosystems".There is growing recognition of the importance of soil fauna for modulating nutrient ...
Godoy, Óscar+4 more
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