The genus Homidia contains 84 species of which 60 have been reported from China. The sequence of COI for ten Homidia species are provided and a neighbour-joining tree is presented.
Xiaowei Qian, Yu Fu, Yitong Ma
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Scale Model of a Soil Aggregate and Associated Organisms: A Teaching Tool for Soil Ecology [PDF]
Soil is a complex habitat for diverse biota. A significant challenge in teaching soil ecology is our inability to observe organisms as they live and interact in the soil.
Bruns, Mary Anne, Byrne, Loren B
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Impact of size and shape in the transport of microplastics by a springtail species [PDF]
Tianjing She +3 more
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Diversity of Acari and Collembola along a pollution gradient in soils of a pre-pyrenean forest ecosystem [PDF]
Mites and springtails are important members of soil mesofauna and have been proven to be good bioindicators of airborne pollutants. We studied the surrounding area of a steel mill located in a mountain valley of North Spain.
Ariño-Plana, A.H. (Arturo Hugo) +7 more
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Can Hawaiian carnivorous caterpillars attack invasive ants or vice versa? [PDF]
The Hawaiian Islands have allowed insects to evolve unique habits, because the islands are isolated and originally lacked predators, such as ants and wasps.
Shinji Sugiura
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The effects of transgenic soybeans and associated herbicide treatment upon soil-surface mesofauna [PDF]
While the percentage of transgenic soybean varieties being planted in Iowa has increased greatly, little has been done to evaluate the ecological consequences of these new technologies.
Bitzer, Royce J., Pedigo, Larry P.
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Arthropoda associated to the olive crop in Southern Portugal (Algarve) [PDF]
The main objective of this work was to study the abundance and diversity of arthropods associated with the olive crop (Olea europea L.), in southern Portugal.
Gonçalves, Maria
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Quantitative and qualitative analyses among the soil microarthropods can be used in biomonitoring as tools in multi-disciplinary approach to characterize soil quality.
Sauro Simoni +6 more
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10 Jahre differenzierte Grundbodenbearbeitung im Ökologischen Landbau. Auswirkungen auf die Besiedlung mit Collembolen [PDF]
During 10 years a crop rotation schedule consisting of different crops (green fallow; intercrop: winter wheat; peas; intercrop: winter rye; summer barley) was combined with three different tillage techniques (plough, inverting to 30 cm depth, intensive ...
Bassemir, Ursula K.
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Radiocarbon signature reveals that most springtails depend on carbon from living plants
Saori Fujii +2 more
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