Mites: Ecology, Evolution & Behaviour (Record no. 100003)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9789400771642
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024 7# - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER
Standard number or code 10.1007/978-94-007-7164-2
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050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number QL461-599.82
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Subject category code PSVT7
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Subject category code SCI025000
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082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 595.7
Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Walter, David Evans.
Relator term author.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Mites: Ecology, Evolution & Behaviour
Medium [electronic resource] :
Remainder of title Life at a Microscale /
Statement of responsibility, etc by David Evans Walter, Heather C. Proctor.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 2nd ed. 2013.
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-- Imprint: Springer,
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Extent XIV, 494 p. 128 illus., 31 illus. in color.
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505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 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.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc            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 been described, and up to 1 million may grace our planet. Mites are predators, parasites, herbivores and detritivores. They are vectors of disease, vital players in soil formation and important agents of biological control. But despite the grand diversity of mites, even trained biologists are often unaware of their significance.             Mites: Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour (2nd edition) aims to fill the gaps in our understanding of these intriguing creatures. It surveys life cycles, feeding behaviour, reproductive biology and host-associations of mites without requiring prior knowledge of their morphology or taxonomy. Topics covered include evolution of mites and other arachnids, mites in soil and water, mites on plants and animals, sperm transfer and reproduction, mites and human disease, and mites as models for testing ecological and evolutionary theories.             Richly illustrated with 128 diagrams, pictures and scanning-electron micrographs, 31 of which are in colour, Mites: Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour (2nd edition) combines the authors’ more than 50 years of experience as acarologists with reviews of more than 1600 journal articles and books (450 of these new since the first edition) to reveal the bizarre ingenuity and the importance of these fascinating animals.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Life sciences.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Medical parasitology.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Ecology.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Biodiversity.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Evolution (Biology).
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Invertebrates.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Entomology.
650 14 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Life Sciences.
650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Entomology.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Parasitology.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Ecology.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Biodiversity.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Evolutionary Biology.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Invertebrates.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Proctor, Heather C.
Relator term author.
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Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element SpringerLink (Online service)
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Title Springer eBooks
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Display text Printed edition:
International Standard Book Number 9789400771635
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Uniform Resource Identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7164-2
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