Trends in Acarology

1. Biogeography and Biodiversity of Acari

   1. Mites occurring in the canopy of Sitka spruce growing in Ireland

      • Julio Arroyo, Patrick Neville, Thomas Bolger

      Pages 105-109

   2. Changes of the oribatid community after a windthrow event

      • Eileen Kreibich, Coronula Grauf, Sabrina Strauch

      Pages 111-115

   3. Effects of a windthrow event in the forest of the peninsula Darss on the gamasid fauna (Arachnida) and Collembola

      • Annett Wegener, Gerd Alberti

      Pages 117-121

   4. Succession of oribatid fauna (Acari, Oribatida) in fallen spruce trees: Deadwood promotes species and functional diversity

      • Piotr Skubala, Magdalena Maslak

      Pages 123-128

   5. Effects of reforestation with conifers on the communities of mesostigmatic mites in northern Spain (Acari: Mesostigmata)

      • María Lourdes Moraza

      Pages 129-133

   6. Actinedid mite community diversity in a succession gradient in continental sand-dune habitats of central Europe

      • David J. Russell, Gerd Alberti

      Pages 135-142

   7. Communities of Oribatida associated with litter input in western red cedar tree crowns: Are moss mats ‘magic carpets’ for oribatid mite dispersal?

      • Zoë Lindo

      Pages 143-148

   8. Oribatid communities (Acari: Oribatida) associated with bird’s nest ferns (Asplenium nidus complex) in a subtropical Japanese forest – a mini-review

      • Shigenori Karasawa, Naoki Hijii

      Pages 149-153

   9. Mites of the families Anystidae and Teneriffiidae from Baja California Sur, Mexico

      • Mercedes Guadalupe López-Campos, Ignacio Vázquez-Rojas

      Pages 155-159

   10. Terrestrial species of the genus Nanorchestes (Endeostigmata: Nanorchestidae) in Europe

       • Matti Uusitalo

       Pages 161-166

   11. Ptyctima (Acari, Oribatida) in various habitats in Finland

       • R. Penttinen, V. Huhta

       Pages 167-170

   12. Distribution of Cosmochthonius species (Oribatida: Cosmochthoniidae) in the eastern part of the Mediterranean, Ukraine and Tajikistan

       • R. Penttinen, E. Gordeeva

       Pages 171-174

   13. An inventory of oribatid mites, the main decomposers in bogs of Colchic Lowland (Caucasus, Georgia)

       • Maka Murvanidze, Eristo Kvavadze

       Pages 175-178

   14. The soil mites of buttongrass moorland (Tasmania) and their response to fire as a management tool

       • David Green

       Pages 179-183

   15. The water mite genus Torrenticola (Hydrachnidia: Torrenticolidae) in Costa Rica – ecology, diversity, and bioindicator potential

       • Tom Goldschmidt

       Pages 185-191

   16. Stage distributions of cunaxids in soil and litter at Chamela, Jalisco, Mexico

       • Blanca E. Mejía-Recamier, Gabriela Castaño-Meneses

       Pages 193-197

   17. Mites (Mesostigmata) inhabiting bird nests in Slovakia (Western Carpathians)

       • Peter Fend’a

       Pages 199-205

   18. Ereynetid mites (Tydeoidea: Ereynetidae) associated with garlic crops in Guanajuato, Mexico

       • Ignacio Mauro Vázquez-Rojas, Edith G. Estrada-Venegas

       Pages 207-210

2. Physiological Acarology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 211-211

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   2. Nutritional biology of oribatid mites from different microhabitats in the forest

      • Jaroslav Smrž

      Pages 213-216

Mites and ticks are everywhere and acarologists go after them – some explore their bewildering diversity, others try to understand their how and why. For the past 50 years, the International Congress of Acarology has been the forum for worldwide communication on the knowledge of Acari, helping researchers and students to look beyond their disciplines. Many mites and ticks are economic factors as they are pests of agricultural, veterinary and medical importance, and several species have become model organisms in modern biology. The 96 contributions to Trends in Acarology – reflecting fields as molecular biology, biochemistry, physiology, microbiology, pathology, ecology, evolutionary biology, systematic biology, soil biology, plant protection, pest control and epidemiology – have been reviewed and carefully edited. This volume contains a wealth of new information, that may stimulate research for many years to come.

• Acarology
• Mites
• Ticks
• biodiversity
• genes
• insect
• morphology
• Model invertebrates
• Entomology

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