By David Evans Walter,Heather C. Proctor

ISBN-10: 9400771630

ISBN-13: 9789400771635

ISBN-10: 9402402330

ISBN-13: 9789402402339

greater than 40,000 species of mites were defined, and as much as 1 million may perhaps exist on the earth. those tiny arachnids play many ecological roles together with appearing as vectors of illness, very important avid gamers in soil formation, and demanding brokers of organic keep an eye on. yet regardless of the grand variety of mites, even knowledgeable biologists are usually ignorant of their importance. Mites: Ecology, Evolution and behavior (2nd variation) goals to fill the gaps in our knowing of those exciting creatures. It surveys existence cycles, feeding behaviour, reproductive biology and host-associations of mites with out requiring earlier wisdom in their morphology or taxonomy. themes coated contain evolution of mites and different arachnids, mites in soil and water, mites on vegetation and animals, sperm move and copy, mites and human sickness, and mites as types for ecological and evolutionary theories.

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