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

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Walter, David Evans (Συγγραφέας), Proctor, Heather C. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Έκδοση: 2nd ed. 2013.
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface to the second edition
• 1. What good are mites?
• 2. The origin of mites: fossil history and relationships
• 3. Systematic and morphological survey
• 4. Life cycles, development and size
• 5. Sex and celibacy
• 6. Mites in soil & litter systems
• 7. Acari underwater, or, why did mites take the plunge?
• 8. Mites on Plants
• 9. Animals as habitats
• 10. Mites that cause and transmit disease
• 11. Mites & biological diversity
• 12. Mites as models.