Oribatid mite species numbers increase, densities decline and parthenogenetic species suffer during bog degradation

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 409-428

  Seniczak, Anna ^a   Seniczak, Stanisław ^b   Maraun, Mark ^c   Graczyk, Radomir ^a   Mistrzak, Marcin ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b KAZIMIERZ WIELKI UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d ICL Polska Sp oo   (Poland)

Author keywords

Acari; Bog degradation; Ecology; Oribatida

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BOG; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; MITE; PARTHENOGENESIS; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

POLAND [CENTRAL EUROPE];

ACARI; HYDROZETES; LIMNOZETES; ORIBATIDA; TRIMALACONOTHRUS;

ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MITE; PARTHENOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; POLAND; POPULATION DENSITY; WETLAND;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MITES; PARTHENOGENESIS; POLAND; POPULATION DENSITY; WETLANDS;

EID: 84960407435     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: 15729702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-016-0015-8     Document Type: Article

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