Mites: Ecology, Evolution & Behaviour Life at a Microscale /

• Main Authors: Walter, David Evans (Author), Proctor, Heather C. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2013.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Parasitology.; Ecology.; Biodiversity.; Evolutionary biology.; Invertebrates.; Entomology.; Life Sciences.; Evolutionary Biology.

           What creatures live in the dark depths of the ocean, in the lungs of birds, in the canopies of rainforests and in the pillow beneath your head? MITES. Wherever biologists have peered, from forest floors to facial pores, they have found these tiny arachnids. More than 40,000 species have b...